Workers Councils

Author : Joel Rogers
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226723798
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Works Councils written by Joel Rogers and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the influence of labor unions declines in many industrialized nations, particularly the United States, the influence of workers has decreased. Because of the need for greater involvement of workers in changing production systems, as well as frustration with existing structures of workplace regulation, the search has begun for new ways of providing a voice for workers outside the traditional collective bargaining relationship. Works councils—institutionalized bodies for representative communication between an employer and employees in a single workplace—are rare in the Anglo-American world, but are well-established in other industrialized countries. The contributors to this volume survey the history, structure, and functions of works councils in the Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain, Sweden, Italy, Poland, Canada, and the United States. Special attention is paid to the relations between works councils and unions and collective bargaining, works councils and management, and the role and interest of governments in works councils. On the basis of extensive comparative data from other Western countries, the book demonstrates powerfully that well-designed works councils may be more effective than labor unions at solving management-labor problems.

Author : Anton Pannekoek
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780359046485
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Workers' Councils written by Anton Pannekoek and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-24 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anton Pannekoek discusses the viability of workers' councils as an effective means of administrating a socialist society, as contrasted to the centralized doctrines of state communism or state capitalism. Conceived as an alternative way to establish and sustain socialism, the workers councils have so far never been successfully established at a national scale. Part of the problem was disagreements among revolutionaries about their size and responsibilities; while Lenin supported the notion during the revolutionary period, the councils were phased out in favor of a centralized state, rather than diffused through the strata of society. Pannekoek draws on history for his ideas, noting the deficiencies of previous revolutions and the major objectives a future revolution should hold. The various tasks a state of worker's councils must accomplish, and the enemies that must be overcome - notably fascists, bourgeois elements and big business - are listed.

Author : Anton Pannekoek
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781902593562
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Workers' Councils written by Anton Pannekoek and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The blueprint for worker control and new community sustainability.

Author : Oskar Anweiler
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soviets written by Oskar Anweiler and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1975 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anton Pannekoek
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 9780359046492
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Workers' Councils: The Libertarian Socialist Philosophy of Workers' Self-Rule in Governing Local Regions written by Anton Pannekoek and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-08-24 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anton Pannekoek discusses the viability of workers' councils as an effective means of administrating a socialist society, as contrasted to the centralized doctrines of state communism or state capitalism. Conceived as an alternative way to establish and sustain socialism, the workers councils have so far never been successfully established at a national scale. Part of the problem was disagreements among revolutionaries about their size and responsibilities; while Lenin supported the notion during the revolutionary period, the councils were phased out in favor of a centralized state, rather than diffused through the strata of society. Pannekoek draws on history for his ideas, noting the deficiencies of previous revolutions and the major objectives a future revolution should hold. The various tasks a state of worker's councils must accomplish, and the enemies that must be overcome - notably fascists, bourgeois elements and big business - are listed.

Author : James Muldoon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351205617
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Council Democracy written by James Muldoon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The return to public assemblies and direct democratic methods in the wave of the global "squares movements" since 2011 has rejuvenated interest in forms of council organisation and action. The European council movements, which developed in the immediate post-First World War era, were the most impressive of a number of attempts to develop workers’ councils throughout the twentieth century. However, in spite of the recent challenges to liberal democracy, the question of council democracy has so far been neglected within democratic theory. This book seeks to interrogate contemporary democratic institutions from the perspective of the resources that can be drawn from a revival and re-evaluation of the forgotten ideal of council democracy. This collection brings together democratic theorists, socialists and labour historians on the question of the relevance of council democracy for contemporary democratic practices. Historical reflection on the councils opens our political imagination to an expanded scope of the possibilities for political transformation by drawing from debates and events at an important historical juncture before the dominance of current forms of liberal democracy. It offers a critical perspective on the limits of current democratic regimes for enabling widespread political participation and holding elites accountable. This timely read provides students and scholars with innovative analyses of the councils on the 100th anniversary of their development. It offers new analytic frameworks for conceptualising the relationship between politics and the economy and contributes to emerging debates within political theory on workplace, economic and council democracy.

Author : Immanuel Ness
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 160846119X
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ours to Master and to Own written by Immanuel Ness and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. With specific examples drawn from every corner of the globe and every period of modern history, this pathbreaking volume comprehensively traces this often underappreciated historical tradition. Ripe with lessons drawn from historical and contemporary struggles for workers’ control, Ours to Master and to Own is essential reading for those struggling to create a new world from the ashes of the old. Immanuel Ness is professor of political science at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and edits WorkingUSA. Dario Azzellini is a writer, documentary director, and political scientist at Johannes Kepler University in Linz.

Author : Adolf Fox Sturmthal
Publisher : Cambridge : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Workers Councils written by Adolf Fox Sturmthal and published by Cambridge : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Workers Councils".

Author : Martin Comack
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0761859039
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Socialism written by Martin Comack and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wild Socialism examines the rise, development, and decline of revolutionary councils of industrial workers in Berlin at the end of the First World War. This popular movement spread throughout Germany, and was without precedent in either the theory or practice of the Social Democratic party and the trade unions allied to it. These workers councils were most highly developed in Berlin, within its particular industrial, political, and cultural milieu. The Berlin Shop Stewards group provided a hard core of militant revolutionaries within the movement, many of whose adherents were more moderate or ambiguous in their views. Externally, the councilists faced a hostile Social Democratic-trade union bureaucracy who characterized council rule as "wilde Sozialismus," a reconstituted and repressive state power, and a revolutionary rival in the rise of German Bolshevism. This work considers the experience of the Berlin councils as alternative institutions outside of traditional union, party, and governmental structures.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780981289762
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Workers' Councils and the Economics of Self-managed Society written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: