1. Imagine a world without bosses

    Imagine a world without bosses. This week we discuss examples of workers who run their own workplaces through workers control. Interviews with Alexis Adarfio, from the Workers’ University in Ciudad Guyana, Venezuela; Immanuel Ness, City University of New York, Brooklyn College; and Dario Azzelini, Johannes Kepler University in Austria.

    - See more at: http://www.3cr.org.au/sticktogether/podcast/stick-together-24072013#stha...

  2.  New Era Windows Opens for Business in Chicago

    Tired of their lives in other people’s hands, window makers started a co-op.

    Meet the takers: They took over their factory, they took on their bosses, they took the initiative to form a worker cooperative and today they’re taking the wraps off a brand-new worker-owned company: New Era Windows. It opened May 9 in Chicago. read more »

  3. The Grunwick Strike 1976-78

    Between Solidary Raise and the Management of Racism

    The struggle at Grunwick Photo Processing in London was a sharp industrial struggle initiated by female imigrant workers. Beginning in the summer of 1976 the women workers (mostly from Asia) protested against the racist discrimination articulated in bad payment, miserable working conditions and cruel treatment by the management. read more »

  4. Workers’ control in Greece: Eleftherotypia’s workers are back with their own newspaper

    Workers of bankrupt daily 'Eleftherotypia' printed their own 'strike issue' in 2012 to raise money for the strike fund. This endeavour would eventually give rise to the cooperative 'Editors' Journal'.

    Here it is! Done! read more »

  5. Review of 'Ours to Master and to Own: Workers’ Control from the Commune to the Present'

    Immanuel Ness and Dario Azzellini, eds.

    Ours to Master and to Own is a compilation of articles offering a historical and global overview of workers’ efforts to gain control over their workplaces, the economy, and governance. It is wonderfully organized in both a chronological and thematic logic, from the nineteenth century through the early twenty-first century, while also moving from a general historical overview toward more specific explanations of how worker democracy was implemented and fought in read more »

  6. Greek Workers Take Over Factory

    An interview direct from Thessaloniki, Greece, where workers have gone into production at a building materials factory abandoned two years ago by its owners.

    Tuesday February 12, was the first day of production under worker control at Viomichaniki Metalleutiki (Vio.Me), a building materials factory in Thessaloniki, Greece, which was abandoned by its bankrupt owners two years ago. Facing 30% unemployment and a dismal future for their community, workers in a series of mass assemblies decided to occupy the factory and operate it under direct democratic workers’ control.

    As part of a letter being circulated by the Thessaloniki Solidarity Initiative explains:
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  7. Occupied Greek Factory Begins Production Under Workers Control. Occupy, Resist, Produce!

    “We see this as the only future for worker’s struggles.”
    Makis Anagnostou, Vio.Me workers’ union spokesman

    Tuesday, February 12, 2013 is the official first day of production under workers control in the factory of Viomichaniki Metalleutiki (Vio.Me) in Thessaloniki, Greece. This means production organized without bosses and hierarchy, and instead planned with directly democratic assemblies of the workers. The workers assemblies have declared an end to unequal division of resources, and will have equal and fair remuneration, decided collectively. The factory produces building materials, and they have declared that they plan to move towards a production of these goods that is not harmful for the environment, and in a way that is not toxic or damaging.
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  8. Book Review: "Ours to Master and to Own: Workers’ Control from the Commune to the Present"

    Immanuel Ness and Dario Azzellini, eds., Ours to Master and to Own: Workers’ Control from the Commune to the Present - Chicago: Haymarket, 2011

    Ours to Master and to Own is a compilation of articles offering a historical and global overview of workers’ efforts to gain control over their workplaces, the economy, and governance. It is wonderfully organized in both a chronological and thematic logic, from the nineteenth century through the early twenty-first century, while also moving from a general historical overview toward more specific explanations of how worker democracy was implemented and fought in particular cases. read more »

  9. Book Review: "Ours to Master and to Own: Workers’ Control from the Commune to the Present"

    Immanuel Ness and Dario Azzellini, eds., Ours to Master and to Own: Workers’ Control from the Commune to the Present - Chicago: Haymarket, 2011

    The fact that the publisher is Haymarket Publishers indicates that the book under examination is concerned with labor studies. This particular book is an anthology of twenty-two articles by various authors, who specialize in labor movements or the history of workers’ organizations. read more »

  10. IV INTERNATIONAL GATHERING OF “THE WORKERS’ ECONOMY”

    Self-management and Work as Alternatives to the Global Economic Crisis

    IV INTERNATIONAL GATHERING OF “THE WORKERS’ ECONOMY”

    Alternatives for orker Self-management and Employment  in response to the Global Economic Crisis

    July 9-12, 2013

    Joao Pessoa, Brazil

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