An article by Staughton Lynd reinterprets the concept of union democracy to include workers of all kinds (unionized workers, nonunion workers, and farmers); protection of the rights to strike, picket, and slow down; and the demand for worker-community ownership. This article examines two recent examples of workers’ democracy: the Serbian revolution of 2000 and the Zapatistas’ ongoing struggle in Chiapas, Mexico.
Originally appeared in WorkingUSA, vol. 5, no. 4, Spring 2002
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| Workers' democracy - Staughton Lynd.pdf | 85.79 KB |
Share
More like this
- Solidarity unionism at Starbucks: the IWW uses Section 7
- Local unions, “primitive democracy,” and workers’ self-activity - Staughton Lynd
- Radical America #10.05: Workers' rights and legal repression
- Wobblies and Zapatistas: conversations on anarchism, Marxism and radical history
- Radical America #08.04: Alternative education project, July-Aug. 1974
Attached files
-
- Workers' democracy - Staughton Lynd.pdf (85.79 KB)
Can comment on articles and discussions
Comments
Hi guys, it seems the PDF is missing from this page?
It is. I'll try and see if I can find it again and reattach.,
still not there
Hey conatz, it seems there's absolutely nothing here!
Even now? For me there's a pdf link just under the text that's working perfectly..
I just added it before.
Aha, good work..
Thanks! It was on my netbook, which I had to get a new charger for, so I had no access to..
I'm from Serbia, and can say that there pretty much never was anything like workers democracy here (maybe some isolated instances pre-ww2). He have an entire number of two worker coops in the entire country, one's an inter-city bus transport firm which is only a half-way worker coop, it is worker owned but not worker managed, and the second is an agricultural worker coop (using a mix of individual and communal farming) that was started only last year.