The Greatest Books of All Time on Workers' Self Government

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Workers' self-government

"Workers' self-government" as a book category encompasses works that explore the theory, history, practice and imagination of workplaces and communities run democratically by those who labor there. It includes political theory (anarcho-syndicalism, council communism, industrial democracy), practical guides to cooperatives and worker-owned firms, historical studies of soviets, factory occupations and labor movements, case studies of successful and failed experiments in self-management, memoirs and oral histories of participants, and fiction that dramatizes collective decision-making and workplace autonomy. Books in this category examine governance structures, economic organization, legal and institutional challenges, strategies for scaling or defending worker control, and critiques of managerial capitalism, appealing to activists, scholars, cooperative organizers, and general readers interested in alternative forms of work, democracy, and economic justice.

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