Ours to Master and to Own

Capitalism would have us believe we need our bosses. This volume reveals the history of workers who dare to disagree

Dario Azzellini is a lecturer at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria, and a documentary filmmaker. Immanuel Ness is a professor of political science at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. He edits WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society and writes on workers, migration, and revolutionary politics.

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Workers' Councils: Historical Overview and Theoretical Debate
Workers' Control and Revolution	p. 10
Workers' Councils in Europe: A Century of Experience	p. 32
The Red Mole: Workers' Councils as a Means of Revolutionary Transformation	p. 48
The Political Form at Last Discovered: Workers' Councils against the Capitalist State	p. 66
Workers' Councils and Self-Administration in Revolution: Early Twentieth Century
From Unionism to Workers' Councils: The Revolutionary Shop Stewards in Germany, 1914-1918	p. 84
The Factory Committee Movement in the Russian Revolution	p. 104
Factory Councils in Turin, 1919-1920: ôThe Sole and Authentic Social Representatives of the Proletarian Classö	p. 130
Workers'Democracy in the Spanish Revolution, 1936-1937	p. 148
Workers' Control under State Socialism
Yugoslavia: Workers' Self-Management as State Paradigm	p. 172
Give Us Back Our Factories! Between Resisting Exploitation and the Struggle for Workers' Power in Poland, 1944-1981	p. 191
Anticolonial Struggle, Democratic Revolution, and Workers' Control
Workers'Control in Java, Indonesia, 1945-1946	p. 210
From Workers' Self-Management to State Bureaucratic Control: Autogestion in Algeria	p. 228
The Limits and Possibilities of Workers' Control within the State: Mendoza, Argentina, 1973	p. 248
Workers' Councils in Portugal, 1974-1975	p. 263
Workers' Control against Capitalist Restructuring in the Twentieth Century
Workers' Control and the Politics of Factory Occupation: Britain, 1970s	p. 284
Workers' Direct Action and Factory Control in the United States	p. 302
ôHot Autumnö: Italy's Factory Councils and Autonomous Workers' Assemblies, 1970s	p. 322
Recipe for Anarchy: British Columbia's Telephone Workers' Occupation of 1981	p. 338
Workers' Control, 1990-2010
Workers' Control in India's Communist-Ruled State: Labor Struggles and Trade Unions in West Bengal	p. 356
Argentinean Worker-Taken Factories: Trajectories of Workers' Control under the Economic Crisis	p. 365
Workers'Control under Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution	p. 382
Brazilian Recovered Factories: The Constraints of Workers' Control	p. 400
Editor Biographies	p. 418
Author Biographies	p. 420
Index	p. 427
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