The Greatest Books of All Time on Worker Self Management
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Worker self-management as a book category covers literature about workplaces where employees collectively control decision‑making, production, and governance instead of hierarchical owners or managers. It includes theoretical and historical studies of self-managed firms and movements (from anarchist and socialist theory to 20th‑century experiments like Yugoslav self-management, Mondragón, and Argentine recovered factories), practical handbooks on setting up and running worker cooperatives, guides to democratic governance, participatory budgeting and conflict resolution, and analyses of legal, economic, and organizational challenges such models face when scaling or interacting with markets. Books in this category may combine case studies, how‑to manuals, policy critiques, and academic research, and are aimed at activists, cooperative founders, unionists, managers exploring participatory alternatives, and students of labor studies, political economy, and organizational design.
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