Worker Control and Workplace Democracy: An Alternative Labour History

Edited by Dario Azzellini, this 352-page volume examines historical and contemporary forms of workers’ control, self-management and workplace democracy. It argues that the global financial crisis generated new shop-floor militancy, radical protests and workplace takeovers. The book traces workers’ control from Marx’s writings on the Paris Commune through council communism, anarcho-syndicalism, Italian operaismo and other autonomous left traditions. Its chapters cover workers’ assemblies, the Austrian Revolution, Chilean cordones industriales, workers’ control in Japan and Brazil, self-management in Mexico and Uruguay, and recovered enterprises and commons in contemporary Greece. Publisher: Zed Books, 2015. ISBN 9781783601547.