The Importance of Workers' Control for Revolutionary Change

Abstract

Workers' control, workers' participation, workers' self-management: the vast array of meanings that have been attached to each of these terms, ranging in substantive content from revolutionary to reformist to corporatist conceptions, bespeaks an ambiguity characteristic not merely of a lack of scholarly consensus with regard to these terms, but more importantly, a lack of common motivation on the part of people who employ them. Often the literature in this field and the debates at conferences on the subject remind one of the strange world which Alice encountered in Through the Looking Glass.

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