A book by the US libertarian socialist Root & Branch collective, published in 1975.
Taken with thanks from https://www.jeremybrecher.org/root-branch/
Links available to each article below.
Contents
introduction 11
by jeremy brecher
part one: on the job
the postal strike 28
by stanley aronowitz and jeremy brecher
keep on truckin' 39
by mac brockway
in the heart of the heart of the country 49
by peter herman
a break with the past 71
by stanley aronowitz
part two: the society we face
living conditions in the united states 94
by joe eyer
problems and prospects 111
by paul mattick, jr.
the origins of job structures in the steel industry 123
by katherine stone
automatic production 158
by joel stein
the united states and indochina 173
by paul mattick
part three: a look at the past
the official history of the seattle general strike 208
by the history committeeof the general strike committee
soviets and factory committees in the russian revolution 276
by peter rachleff
mass strike in france 300
by information correspondence ouvriere
part four: workers' councils
introduction 377
by peter rachleff
workers' councils 384
by anton pannekoek
part five: perspectives
a few reflections 501
by albert chameau
Comments
Lightly cleaned these and
Lightly cleaned these and combined them into one smaller file.
https://files.catbox.moe/afv91x.pdf
Thanks Lurdan, that is a lot
Thanks Lurdan, that is a lot better! I am trying to upload it here but keep getting a "validation error" so possibly it is still too large at 33megs for Libcom...
Curses. I've squeezed it a
Curses. I've squeezed it a bit more (there is a slight trade off of course). 24.5MB.
https://pixeldrain.com/u/1MZq3tW9
(Catbox's main page seems to be down today so that's a pixeldrain link which will expire in a few weeks).
For future reference what is the maximum file size?
An excellent book. Helped me
An excellent book. Helped me with my class struggle understanding and early on maturing political development.
While largely "councilist" in orientation (which I'm not, not in the formal sense at least), the critiques and possibilities were enlightening to this then late teen, near 20 year old (when the book was published in 1975).
lurdan wrote: Curses. I've
lurdan
Thanks! I’ll check that tomorrow. I think it’s 25megs so that should be ok. Not sure why that is.
I might start a geek thread about PDFs and what can be done with them too - it would be good to pick your brains.
Fozzie wrote: it would be
Fozzie
Good luck with that.
lurdan wrote: Fozzie wrote:
lurdan
Heh :-)
Now one PDF, good stuff.
I am working on transcribing
I am working on transcribing each article too. Check back soon!
Great stuff! If the single
Great stuff! If the single PDF is still too big, you can just split it into multiple PDFs just by putting the first half in one and the 2nd half in another, using a website like this: https://smallpdf.com/split-pdf