TY - BOOK AU - Ness, Immanuel AU - Azzellini, Dario TI - Ours to master and to own : workers' control from the commune to the present SN - 9781608461196 U1 - 338.69 NES PY - 2011/// CY - Chicago PB - Haymarket Books KW - Works councils - History KW - Industrial relations - History KW - Trade unions - History N1 -

 Includes bibliographical references and index.

; Introduction / Immanuel Ness and Dario Azzellini -- Workers' councils: historical overview and theoretical debate -- Workers' control and revolution / Victor Wallis -- Workers' councils in Europe: a century of experience / Donny Gluckstein -- The red mole: workers' councils as a means of revolutionary transformation / Sheila Cohen -- The political form at last discovered: workers' councils against the capitalist state / Alberto R. Bonnet -- Workers' councils and self-administration in revolution: early twentieth century -- From unionism to workers' councils: the revolutionary shop stewards in Germany, 1914-1918 / Ralf Hoffrogge -- The factory councils in Turin, 1919-1920: "the sole and authentic social representatives of the proletarian class" / Pietro Di Paola -- Workers' democracy in the Spanish Revolution, 1936-1937 / Andy Durgan -- Workers' control under state socialism -- Yugoslavia: workers' self-management as state paradigm / Goran Musić -- Give us back our factories! Between resisting exploitation and the struggle for workers' power in Poland, 1944-1981 / Zbigniew Marcin Kowalewski -- Anticolonial struggle, democratic revolution, and workers' control -- Workers' control in Java, Indonesia, 1945-1946 / Jafar Suryomenggolo -- From workers' self-management to state bureaucratic control: autogestion in Algeria / Samuel J. Southgate -- The limits and possibilities of workers' control within the state: Mendoza, Argentina, 1973 / Gabriela Scodeller -- Workers' councils in Portugal, 1974-1975 / Peter Robinson -- Workers' control against capitalist restructuring in the twentieth century -- Workers' control and the politics of factory occupation: Britain, 1970s / Alan Tuckman -- Workers' direct action and factory control in the United States / Immanuel Ness -- "Hot autumn": Italy's factory councils and autonomous workers' assemblies, 1970s / Patrick Cuninghame -- Recipe for anarchy: British Columbia's telephone workers' occupation of 1981 / Elaine Bernard -- Workers' control in India's communist-ruled state: labor struggles and trade unions in west Bengal / Arup Kumar Sen -- Argentinean worker-taken factories: trajectories of workers' control under the economic crisis / Marina Kabat -- Workers' control under Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution / Dario Azzellini -- Brazilian recovered factories: the constraints of workers' control / Maurício Sardá de Faria and Henrique T. Novaes ER -