Workers’ Control: A Book of Readings and Witnesses for Workers’ Control

Description

This book of Readings and Witnesses for Workers' Control was

originally published in 1968, at a time when the issue of workers' control

in British industry was beginning to stir in the trade unions and

throughout the Labour movement. The paperback version was first published

in 1970.

The book sought to show the rich history of a movement to win a voice in

the government of industry for the people who do the work in it. It

assembled a great deal of material, from different points of view, showing

the breadth of the argument over the years from 1900 onwards. It helped to

shape an alternative view within the official Labour movement, and

exercised considerable influence, not only in a number of key trade unions,

but also in local government and in some public services. It gives a

graphic, panoramic picture of many of the best minds in the Labour

movement, exploring the ideas of syndicalism, industrial unionism, guild

socialism and so on, concluding with a section dealing with burgeoning

arguments in the 1960s.