Dario Azzellini & Immanuel Ness 
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Workers’ Control from the Commune to the Present

PRELIMINARY TABLE OF CONTENTS:


Introduction

Dario Azzellini & Immanuel Ness




• Part I: 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
  Workers Councils and Control: Contemporary Praxis in Latin America, Alberto Bonnet
  


• Part II: Workers Councils and Self-administration in Revolution: Early 20th Century
  Germany: From Unionism to Workers´ Councils: Revolutionary Shop Stewards 1914-1918, Ralf Hoffrogge
  Bolshevik Revolution: Factory Councils and Workers’ Control, Mark-David Mandel
  Italy: Il Biennio Rosso Factory Councils, 1919-1920, Pietro Dipaola
  Workers Control and Councils in the Spanish Revolution 1936-1939, Andrew Durgan
  


• Part III: Workers Control under State Socialism
  Yugoslavia Workers Councils—Successes and Failures, Goran Markovic
  Hungary: Workers Councils of 1956, Tamas Krausz
  Poland, Workers Councils 1950s/1980s, Zbigniew Marcin
  


• Part IV: Anticolonial struggle, Democratic Revolution and Workers Control
  Workers Control of Railways in Colonial Indonesia, 1945-1946, Jafar Suryomenggolo
  Algeria’s autogestion: From Self-management to State Bureaucracy, Sam Southgate
  Argentina, The Limits of Worker Control within the State: Mendoza- 1973, Gabriela Scodeller
  Portugal: Workers Councils 1974-75, Peter Robinson
  India: Post-Independence Worker Control and Self-Management, Arup Kumar Sen
  


• Part V: Workers Control against Capitalist Restructuring in the 20th Century
  US: Factory Occupations: Looking Retrospectively to the Future, Immanuel Ness
  Italian ‘Hot Autumn:’ Factory Councils and Autonomous Workers Assemblies, 1970s, Patrick Cuninghame
  Canada: Women and the British Columbia Workers Occupations, 1980s, Elaine Bernard
  Britain/Wales ‘Tower Colliery and Workers Control in Action: A Case Study’, Russell Smith; Len Arthur; Molly Scott Cato and Tom Keenoy
  


• Part VI: Workers Control: Contemporary Era
  Argentinean Expropriated Factories: Trajectories of Worker Control under the Economic Crisis, Marina Kabat
  Venezuela: Reorganizing Work and Production, Dario Azzellini
  Brazilian Contemporary Recovered Factories, Mauricio Sardá de Faria & Henrique T. Novaes
  

Dario Azzellini: Dario Azzellini is a political scientist and lecturer at Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria, writer and documentary director based in Berlin and Caracas. He holds a Ph D in political sciences at the Goethe University in Frankfurt (Germany) and is finishing a Ph D in sociology at the BUAP in Puebla (Mexico). His research and writing focuses on social and revolutionary militancy, migration and racism, people’s power and selfadministration, workers control and extensive case studies in Latin America. He served as Associate Editor for the The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to the Present, published by Wiley-Blackwell in 2009 and was primary editor for Latin America, the Spanish Caribbean, and the new left in Italy. He serves as Associate Editor for Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society and for Cuadernos de Marte, an academic publication about war sociology by the University of Buenos Aires. He published several books, essays and documentaries about social movements, privatization of military services, migration and racism, Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua, Colombia and Venezuela. Among them The Business of War (Assoziation A 2002), a book about privatization of military services, translated an published in Germany, Argentina, Bolivia, France, Indonesia, Italy, Spain and Venezuela.  Azzellini is a documentary filmmaker.  His latest documentary ‘Comuna under construction’ (2010) examines worker councils in Venezuela. Azzellini has been invited to conferences in Europe, North America, South America and Asia. More information on his publications and work is available at: www.azzellini.net.

Immanuel Ness: Immanuel Ness is professor of political science at Brooklyn College, City University of New York.  He holds a Ph D in Political Science from the CUNY Graduate Center. His research and writing focuses on social and revolutionary movements, labor militancy, and migrant worker resistance to oppression. Ness just completed Guest Workers, Corporate Despotism and Resistance, (forthcoming University of Illinois Press) a book that examines the rise of guest workers from the global South in the US and labor opposition to employer abuses.  He is also working on a number of projects on labor struggles, global migration, and the rise of syndicalism He is author of an anthology of contemporary labor: Real World Labor, with Amy Offner and Chris Sturr (Dollars & Sense).  His book, titled Immigrants, Unions, and the U.S. Labor Market, published in the spring of 2005 by Temple University Press is now in its 3rd printing. Ness has been invited to speak throughout the world (Asia, Europe, North America, South America) and at numerous academic conferences, including the American Political Science Association, and frequently invited to speak on low-wage labor, immigrants, and workers centers at conferences and universities the U.S. and abroad.  He is editor of the peer-review quarterly journal, Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society, a peer review quarterly journal that examines labor and work from a socialist perspective.  Ness is General Editor of the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration (forthcoming, Blackwell 2012).  Ness is founder of the Lower East Side Community Labor Organization, an autonomous activist organization in New York City.  In 2005, his 4-volume work: Encyclopedia of American Social Movements received Outstanding Reference Source, Reference and User Services Association, American Library Association.  The work is selected as best reference for 2005 from Library Journal.  He is editor of International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to the Present (Wiley-Blackwell 2009) and co-editor with Aaron Brenner and Benjamin Day of Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History (Sharpe 2009).  He received awards and acclaim for his other reference works, including Encyclopedia of Third Parties in America.