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Index

Praise Title Page Epigraph Acknowledgments Introduction Part I - Workers’ Councils

1 - Workers’ Control and Revolution

Proletariat and Dictatorship in Revolutionary Russia The Politics of Revolutionary Workers’ Control: Three Cases Lessons of the Pre-1989 Experience Toward a New Synthesis References

2 - Workers’ Councils in Europe

The Civil War in France, 1871 World War I and Its Aftermath World War II and the Missing Councils Conclusion References

3 - The Red Mole

“The ability...to recall any delegate immediately” “The only thing between us and anarchy. . .” Spontaneity and Self-Activity “Fused by their common adversity”: Class Unity within Workers’ Councils The Issue Is Not the Issue . . . “The stilled soul of a whole industry . . . ” “Are you ready?” Dual Power and the Soviet “A peculiar sort of state . . .” “I was, I am, I will always be . . .” References

4 - The Political Form at Last Discovered

The Creation of Workers’ Councils Workers’ Councils and the Capitalist State Conclusion References

Part II - Workers’ Councils and Self-Administration in Revolution

5 - From Unionism to Workers’ Councils

The Revolutionary Shop Stewards Richard Müller and the German Metalworkers Union From Opposition to Resistance: The Union Goes Underground The Socialist Republic of Germany The Revolutionary Stewards Become Leninists The Disappearance of the Revolutionary Shop Stewards References

6 - The Factory Committee Movement in the Russian Revolution

The February Revolution and the Factory Committees Fear of Sabotage and Emergence of the Demand for Workers’ Control Workers’ Control and Political Power Capital’s Response Moving Beyond “Control” and the Question of Class Collaboration All Political Power to the Soviets! But How Much Economic Power? Calls for Nationalization After Nationalization References

7 - Factory Councils in Turin, 1919–1920

Toward the Factory Councils The April Strike Conclusions References

8 - Workers’ Democracy in the Spanish Revolution, 1936–1937

Precedents The Committees Collectivization Rebuilding the State The Unfinished Revolution References

Part III - Workers’ Control under State Socialism

9 - Yugoslavia

In Search of the “Yugoslav Path” The Formative Years Market Socialism The Last Revolution from Above Giving In References

10 - Give Us Back Our Factories!

Mode of Exploitation and Workers’ Resistance The First Political Expropriation of the Working Class: 1945 The Workers’ Council Movement: 1956 Blood Wedding on the Baltic Coast: 1970 A Workers’ Revolution: 1980–1981 The Struggle for Workers’ Self-Management: 1981 References

Part IV - Anticolonial Struggle, Democratic Revolution, and Workers’ Control

11 - Workers’ Control in Java, Indonesia, 1945–1946

Labor and the New Indonesian State in Revolution Spontaneous Acts of Workers’ Control The Political Discourse on “Self-Management” versus “Syndicalism” The Historical Significance of Workers’ Control to Indonesia References

12 - From Workers’ Self-Management to State Bureaucratic Control

Algeria at Independence: Crisis and Conflict Formalizing and Neutralizing Workers’ Control The Neutralization of Self-Management Self-Management and Class Struggle References

13 - The Limits and Possibilities of Workers’ Control within the State

Social Struggle in Argentina in the 1970s Struggle for the Reappropriation of the State References

14 - Workers’ Councils in Portugal, 1974–1975

Workers’ Soviets On the Side of the Workers The CRTSMs Project The Popular Assemblies The Comité de Luta de Setúbal November 25, 1975, and the Response in Setúbal Reflections References

Part V - Workers’ Control against Capitalist Restructuring in the Twentieth Century

15 - Workers’ Control and the Politics of Factory Occupation

The Logic of Workplace Occupation under Capitalism The Big Flame and UCS Escalation of Worker Factory Occupations The Heyday of Occupation Toward Thatcherism and Declining Workplace Occupations A Future for Worker Resurgence? References

16 - Workers’ Direct Action and Factory Control in the United States

Activism at the Point of Production U.S. Sit-Downs, Workers’ Control, Unionization: 1935–1939 Trade Unions and Worker Power on the Job Neoliberalism, Deindustrialization, and Decline in Worker Power Financial Collapse and Workers’ Control The UE and the Republic Windows and Doors Sit-Down Strike Conclusions References

17 - “Hot Autumn”

Italy’s Autonomist Movement The Hot Autumn and the Factory Councils The Autonomous Workers’ Assemblies Repression and Defeat of the Autonomous Workers’ Movements Conclusions References

18 - Recipe for Anarchy

New Technology and Telephone Worker Labor Conflict Employer Lockout Labor Militancy Worker Direct Action at BC Telephone Employer Intimidation of Workers Worker Resilience Workers Escalate Occupations Mass Support for Workers’ Action Linking to Global Mass Actions Workers Face Legal Challenge and Court Orders Workers and Union End Occupation Outcome and Analysis of BC Telephone Workers’ Occupation Conclusion References

Part VI - Workers’ Control, 1990–2010

19 - Workers’ Control in India’s Communist-Ruled State

A Cooperative of Tribal Workers The Jute Industry Experience State, Labor, and Worker Struggles In Search of a Theory References

20 - Argentinean Worker-Taken Factories

Political Context of the Factory Takeover Movement Constraints on Worker-Occupied Factories Worker-Introduced Changes in the Labor Process Internal Organization of Workers Final Reflections References

21 - Workers’ Control under Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution

Cooperatives EPSs : Three Names, One Shortcut Recovered Companies Comanagement, Self-Management, and Workers’ Control From Comanagement to Councils Search for a Socialist Economy References

22 - Brazilian Recovered Factories

History of the Social Struggles for Autonomy The Latin American Historical Context Statistics and Overview Special Cases: Cooperminas and the Catende Harmonia Project Factories in Deadlock: The Quest for Nationalization Recovered Factories at a Crossroads Conclusion References

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