TY - BOOK AB - From the dawning of the industrial epoch, wage earners have organized themselves into unions, fought bitter strikes, and gone so far as to challenge the very premises of the system by creating institutions of democratic self-management aimed at controlling production without bosses. With specific examples drawn from every corner of the globe and every period of modern history, this pathbreaking volume comprehensively traces this often underappreciated historical tradition. Ripe with lessons drawn from historical and contemporary struggles for workers' control, Ours to Master and to Own is essential reading for those struggling to create a new world from the ashes of the old.-- AU - Ness, Immanuel. AU - Azzellini, Dario, CN - HD5650 CY - Chicago, Ill. : DA - 2011. ID - 1380520 KW - Works councils KW - Labor unions KW - Industrial relations KW - Industrial relations. KW - Labor unions. KW - Works councils. KW - Fackliga organisationer KW - Fackligt arbete N2 - From the dawning of the industrial epoch, wage earners have organized themselves into unions, fought bitter strikes, and gone so far as to challenge the very premises of the system by creating institutions of democratic self-management aimed at controlling production without bosses. With specific examples drawn from every corner of the globe and every period of modern history, this pathbreaking volume comprehensively traces this often underappreciated historical tradition. Ripe with lessons drawn from historical and contemporary struggles for workers' control, Ours to Master and to Own is essential reading for those struggling to create a new world from the ashes of the old.-- PB - Haymarket Books, PP - Chicago, Ill. : PY - 2011. SN - 9781608461196 SN - 160846119X T1 - Ours to master and to own :workers' control from the commune to the present / TI - Ours to master and to own :workers' control from the commune to the present / ER -