Dario Azzellini

Workers’ Control and Self-Management

Workers’ Control and Self-Management
Essay in: The Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies. Second edition

Autor: Veltmeyer, Henry; Bowles, Paul (Eds.)
Publisher: Routledge
Páginas: 442
Published in 2022

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43. Workers’ Control and Self-Management 

Dario Azzellini

Workers’ control and workers’ self- management have manifested themselves in all kinds of crisis and historical changes. They proliferated in revolutions and anti-colonial struggles, during political, economic, social, and cultural crises, and as a response to capitalist restructuring. Different forms of and struggles for workers’ control and self-management occurred in capitalist and in declared socialist political systems. In the Global South, workers’ control was especially present in anti-colonial and postcolonial emancipation efforts from the late 1940s to the early 1980s. Over the past two decades there has been a renewed global interest in workplace democracy, cooperativism, and workers’ control. The contemporary crisis has put self-management and the control of the means of production by workers and communities back on the agenda in many different forms. From a growing cooperative movement in many countries, struggles for the collective democratic administration of resources as commons to workplace takeovers through workers (from radical models as in Latin America and beyond to workers’ buy-outs) and the broader societal practices of the Zapatistas in Chiapas, the Communes in Venezuela, and Rojava/Kurdistan. This chapter clarifies some conceptual differences, and looks at the history of workers’ control and workers’ self-management, focusing especially on the Global South. It summarises why larger-scale initiatives in the 20th century failed and looks especially at the Worker Recuperated Companies as a 21st-century phenomenon to analyse the anticapitalist and emancipatory potential of workers’ control.

 


Table of Contents

CRITICAL DEVELOPMENT STUDIES: AN INTRODUCTION 

1. Introduction to Critical Development Studies: Four Characteristics with Illustrations from Seven Decades 

Paul Bowles and Henry Veltmeyer  

PART 1: HISTORY AS DEVELOPMENT

2. Unravelling the Canvas of History   

Kari Polanyi Levitt   

PART 2: THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT DEVELOPMENT 

3. Critical Development Theory: Results and Prospects 

Ronaldo Munck 

4. Race in/and Development   

Robtel Neajai Pailey 

5. Development Theory: The Latin American Pivot  

Cristóbal Kay 

6. Postdevelopment and Other Critiques of Development 

Eduardo Gudynas 

7. Feminist Contributions to Critical Development Studies 

Fernanda Wanderley 

PART 3: SYSTEM DYNAMICS: CAPITALISM, IMPERIALISM, DEVELOPMENT AND GLOBALIZATION 

8. Capitalism and Crises  

Radhika Desai 

9. Development, Capitalism, Imperialism, Globalisation: A Tale of Four Concepts  

Henry Veltmeyer 

10. Globalisation Versus Development: Beyond Dualism 

S.A. Hamed Hosseini and Barry K. Gills 

11. Philanthrocapitalism and Development 

Andrew Mushita and Carol Thompson

12. The Migration-Development Nexus in the Neoliberal Era 

Raúl Delgado Wise  

PART 4: POLICY CONFIGURATIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT 

13. The Post-Washington Consensus   

Elisa Van Waeyenberge 

14. International Cooperation for Development  

Peter Kragelund 

15. The Developmental State, Globalisation and Structural Transformation 

Paul Bowles 

16. Local Economic Development, Microcredit and Financial Inclusion 

Milford Bateman 

PART 5: INSIDE THE BRICS  

17. Brazil: Development Strategies and Peripheral Conditions 

Ana Garcia and Miguel Borba de Sá 

18. India: Critical Issues of a ‘Tortuous Transition’ 

John Harriss 

19. Interrogating the China Model of Development  

Yin-Wah Chu and Alvin Y. So 

20. South Africa: An Economy of Extremes 

Sam Ashman 

PART 6: POVERTY, INEQUALITIES AND DEVELOPMENT DYNAMICS 

21. Development: Class Matters 

Henry Veltmeyer 

22. The Dynamics of Poverty Production: A Political Economy Perspective for the SDGs Era  

Alberto D. Cimadamore 

23. Poverty Analysis through a Gender Lens 

Naila Kabeer  

24. Women, Work and Gender Inequalities: With Illustrations from Cambodia and China  

Fiona MacPhail 

25. Health Inequalities and Development in a Global Context 

Ted Schrecker 

PART 7: CAPITALISM, LABOUR AND THE STATE 

26. Labour and Development  

Benjamin Selwyn 

27. The Triangle of Underdevelopment: Technology, Patents and Monopoly 

Edgar Záyago Lau 

28. The Making of the New Chinese Working Class 

Pun Ngai 

29. Labour and Development in Latin America 

Susan Spronk 

30. Class and State Formation in the Gulf Arab States  

Adam Hanieh 

PART 8: DYNAMICS OF AGRARIAN CHANGE AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

31. Contemporary Dynamics of Agrarian Change  

Cristóbal Kay 

32. Food Regimes and Agrarian Questions  

Haroon Akram-Lodhi 

33. Urban Development in the Global South  

Charmain Levy and Alice Moura 

34. Peasant Alternatives to Neoliberalism  

Leandro Vergara-Camus 

PART 9: DEVELOPMENT, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND THE ENVIRONMENT  

35. Eco-Marxist Lenses for Viewing Human-Nature Relations  

Darcy Tetreault 

36. Climate Change and Development 

Marcus Taylor 

37. The Energy Transition and the Global South 

Leandro Vergara-Camus 

38. The Political Economy of Extractivism in North Africa  

Hamza Hamouchene 

PART 10: RESISTANCES AND ALTERNATIVES 

39. Understanding the Rise of the Far Right, and what to do about it  

Walden Bello 

40. Rural Dispossession and Resistance in Asia and Africa 

Dip Kapoor 

41. Extractive Capitalism and the Resistance in Latin America 

Raúl Zibechi 

42. Colonialism’s Miasmas: Indigenous Resistance and Resilience

Makere Stewart-Harawira  

43. Workers’ Control and Self-Management 

Dario Azzellini 

44. Communitarian Revolutions: Ecological Economics from Below 

David Barkin 

CONCLUSION  

45. Moving towards Another World: Possibilities and Pitfalls 

Henry Veltmeyer