Workers Control
An Interview with Dario Azzellini
Workers Control and/or Worker Cooperatives?
GEO: Dario, your co-edited book, Ours to Master and To Own, Workers Control from the Commune to the Present, presents a rich variety of worker control initiatives. These have taken place not only in Europe, but in Algeria, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, India, Indonesia, the USA, Venezuela, Yugoslavia, and other countries. Can you clarify for us what these examples have in common, and what you see as their importance?
The Center for Place, Culture and Politics at the CUNY Graduate Center Presents:
Ours to Master and to Own: Workers' Control from the Commune to the Present, a conversation with Immanuel Ness and Dario Azzellini
Capitalism would have us believe we need our bosses. Tonight's discussion reveals the history of workers who dare to disagree. 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.
Venezuela. Il controllo operaio
Nei primi anni della presidenza Chávez, quella del controllo operaio era un’idea
sostenuta solo da un piccolo gruppi di lavoratori e dallo stesso Presidente, che di quando in quando si dichiarava a suo favore. Le nazionalizzazioni nel settore industriale sono iniziate solo nel 2005, e in un primo momento sono state una risposta alle occupazioni di fabbriche e alle manifestazioni dei lavoratori e delle lavoratrici.
Pace University, NYC, USA - march 17th, 11:39 min
Dario Azzellini about Venezuela - Left Forum 2012
Panel: Social Movements, the State and the Question of Autonomy
Workers’ Control
“Ours to Master and to Own - Workers’ Control from the Commune to the Present” edited by Immanuel Ness and Dario Azzellini
This excellent series of essays is essential reading for anti-capitalist activists and all those who know that we do not need our bosses.
Video of the Book Event for "Ours to Master and to Own", June 2011 - 1h18min
Book Event for "Ours to Master and to Own. Worker Control: From the Commune to the Present" - By Immanuel Ness & Dario Azzellini (Eds) hold in June, the 23rd 2011 at the Brooklyn College Graduate Center (CUNY) USA
With: Immanuel Ness
Video of the book talk with the authors, Dario Azzellini and Immanuel Ness
Ours to Master and to Own: A book talk - October 2011 - 1h25min.
Video of the book talk with Dario Azzellini and Immanuel Ness hold the 12th October 2011 at the City University of New York, Graduate Center
[Richard Müller: Der Mann hinter der Novemberrevolution]
Richard Müller: The Man behind the November Revolution
Richard Müller. The Man behind the November Revolution is the title of the
seventh volume of the hardcover book series History of Communism and Leftist
Socialism, edited by Berlin-based Dietz publishers. But who was Richard
Müller? Never heard of him? Today widely unknown, Müller was the leader of
the so-called Revolutionary Shop Stewards in the early twentieth century in
Germany. “From 1916 to 1921, Müller was without any doubt among the
politically most influential personalities in the German labor movement” (216).
Left Forum 2011, March 20, 2011, Pace University, New York
Worker control and factory occupations, global South and North
Video of:
Worker control and factory occupations, global South and North
Left Forum 2011, March 20, 2011, Pace University, New York
Workers’ Control from the Commune to the Present
Ours to master and to own
From the dawning of the industrial epoch, wage earners have organized themselves into unions, fought bitter strikes, and have 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. Looking at specific examples drawn from every corner of the globe and every period of modern history, this pathbreaking volume comprehensively traces this often under-appreciated historical tradition.
