Ours To Master And To Own Workers Control From The Commune To The Present
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Author |
: Dario Azzellini |
Publisher |
: Haymarket Books |
Total Pages |
: 458 |
Release |
: 2011-07-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781608461707 |
ISBN-13 |
: 160846170X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ours to Master and to Own by : Dario Azzellini
From the dawning of the industrial epoch, wage earners have organized themselves into unions, fought bitter strikes, and gone so far as to challenge the very premises of the system by creating institutions of democratic self-management aimed at controlling production without bosses. With specific examples drawn from every corner of the globe and every period of modern history, this pathbreaking volume comprehensively traces this often underappreciated historical tradition. Ripe with lessons drawn from historical and contemporary struggles for workers’ control, Ours to Master and to Own is essential reading for those struggling to create a new world from the ashes of the old. Immanuel Ness is professor of political science at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and edits WorkingUSA. Dario Azzellini is a writer, documentary director, and political scientist at Johannes Kepler University in Linz.
Author |
: Dario Azzellini |
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: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2016 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9350023725 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789350023723 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ours to Master and to Own Workers' Control from the Commune to the Present by : Dario Azzellini
Author |
: Assistant Professor Dario Azzellini |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 362 |
Release |
: 2015-03-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781783601561 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1783601566 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis An Alternative Labour History by : Assistant Professor Dario Azzellini
The global financial crisis has led to a new shop-floor militancy. Radical forms of protest and new workers' takeovers have sprung up all over the globe. In the US, Republic Windows and Doors started production under worker control in January 2013. Later that year workers in Greece took over and managed a hotel, a hospital, a newspaper, a TV channel and a factory. The dominant revolutionary left has viewed workers' control as part of a system necessary during a transition to socialism. Yet most socialist and communist parties have neglected to promote workers' control as it challenges the centrality of parties and it is in this spirit that trade unions, operating through the institutional frameworks of government, have held a monopoly over labor history. Tracing Marx's writings on the Paris Commune through council communism, anarcho-syndicalism, Italian operaismo, and other "heretical" left currents, An Alternative Labour History uncovers the practices and intentions of historical and contemporary autonomous workers' movements that until now have been largely obscured. It shows that by bringing permanence and predictability to their workplaces, workers can stabilize their communities through expressions of participatory democracy. And, as history has repeatedly shown, workers have always had the capacity to run their enterprises on their own.
Author |
: Noam Chomsky |
Publisher |
: Penguin UK |
Total Pages |
: 97 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780241964019 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0241964016 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Occupy by : Noam Chomsky
Since its appearance in Zuccotti Park, New York, in September 2011, the Occupy movement has spread to hundreds of towns and cities across the world. Through talks and conversations with movement supporters, 'Occupy' presents Chomsky's latest thinking on the central issues, questions, and demands that are driving people to protest.
Author |
: Anderson Bean |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 173 |
Release |
: 2022-03-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781793640857 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1793640858 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Communes and the Venezuelan State by : Anderson Bean
Since 2006, Venezuela has witnessed an explosion of different forms of popular power and participatory democracy. Over 47,000 grassroots neighborhood-based communal councils and 3,000 communes have been constructed. In Communes and the Venezuelan State: The Struggle for Participatory Democracy in a Time of Crisis, Anderson Bean offers a critical analysis of these experiments in popular and workers' power and their potential for societal transformation within and beyond Venezuela. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research, Bean demonstrates how workers and peasants, through networks of popular power, exercise agency over their own development while facing challenges from the capitalist state. Most importantly, this book connects with the far-reaching implications that the communal movement in Venezuela has for building a society responsive more to the needs of ordinary people than to the desires of the elites.
Author |
: Chris Nineham |
Publisher |
: John Hunt Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 187 |
Release |
: 2023-05-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781789049367 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1789049369 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis Radical Chains by : Chris Nineham
At a time of almost unimaginable inequality, the mainstream still tries to ignore class. Radical Chains: Why Class Matters argues that denial of class is no coincidence but in fact central to the system's survival. Exploring largely ignored histories of struggle and challenging the many myths about class today, Radical Chains puts forward the case that it is time to place class once again at the centre of emancipatory politics.
Author |
: Marina Sitrin |
Publisher |
: Zuccotti Park Press |
Total Pages |
: 122 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781884519093 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1884519091 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis Occupying Language by : Marina Sitrin
An exploration of how key terms and words from other movements can help shift consciousness and connect communities of struggle
Author |
: Geo Maher |
Publisher |
: Verso Books |
Total Pages |
: 145 |
Release |
: 2016-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781784782245 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1784782246 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Building the Commune by : Geo Maher
Latin America’s experiments in direct democracy Since 2011, a wave of popular uprisings has swept the globe, taking shape in the Occupy movement, the Arab Spring, 15M in Spain, and the anti-austerity protests in Greece. The demands have been varied, but have expressed a consistent commitment to the ideals of radical democracy. Similar experiments began appearing across Latin America twenty-five years ago, just as the left fell into decline in Europe. In Venezuela, poor barrio residents arose in a mass rebellion against neoliberalism, ushering in a government that institutionalized the communes already forming organically. In Building the Commune, George Ciccariello-Maher travels through these radical experiments, speaking to a broad range of community members, workers, students and government officials. Assessing the projects’ successes and failures, Building the Commune provides lessons and inspiration for the radical movements of today.
Author |
: Kristin Victoria Magistrelli Plys |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 361 |
Release |
: 2020-10-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108857864 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108857868 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Brewing Resistance by : Kristin Victoria Magistrelli Plys
In 1947, decolonization promised a better life for India's peasants, workers, students, Dalits, and religious minorities. By the 1970s, however, this promise had not yet been realized. Various groups fought for the social justice but in response, Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi suspended the constitution, and with it, civil liberties. The hope of decolonization that had turned to disillusion in the postcolonial period quickly descended into a nightmare. In this book, Kristin Plys recounts the little known story of the movement against the Emergency as seen through New Delhi's Indian Coffee House based on newly uncovered evidence and oral histories with the men who led the movement against the Emergency.
Author |
: Martin Parker |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 409 |
Release |
: 2014-01-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135005399 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135005397 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Routledge Companion to Alternative Organization by : Martin Parker
Despite the Great Recession, slightly different forms of global capitalism are still portrayed as the only game in town by the vast majority of people in power in the world today. Unbridled growth, trade liberalisation, and competition are advocated as the only or best ways of organizing the contemporary world. Unemployment, yawning gaps between rich and poor, political disengagement, and environmental devastation are too often seen as acceptable ‘side effects’ of the dominance of neo-liberalism. But the reality is that capitalism has always been contested and that people have created many other ways of providing for themselves. This book explores economic and organizational possibilities which extend far beyond the narrow imagination of economists and management theorists. Chapters on co-operatives, community currencies, the transition movement, scrounging, co-housing and much more paints a rich picture of the ways in which another word is not only possible, but already taking shape. The aim of this companion is to move beyond complaining about the present and into exploring this diversity of organisational possibilities. Our starting point is a critical analysis of contemporary global capitalism is merely the opening for thinking about organizing as a form of politics by other means, and one that can be driven by the values of solidarity, freedom and responsibility. This comprehensive companion with an international cast of contributors gives voice to forms of organizing which remain unrepresented or marginalised in organizational studies and conventional politics, yet which offer more promising grounds for social and environmental justice. It is a valuable resource for students, activists and researchers interested in alternative approaches to economy and society in a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields.