Workers control
- Created by: kmules15
- Created on: 04-04-22 13:48
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- Workers control
- Complete/ partial ownership of economic enterprise by employees
- Can also mean workers control of state
- Aims to give workers full democratic control over workplaces
- Seeks to est real decision making powers
- Can also mean workers control of state
- Aligns with ideas of collectivism and pursuing group interests
- Argued that it can maximise potential by eliminating alienation and undermining view of labour = commodity
- Workers should have control over means of production
- Replaces/ dilutes capitalist control of economy
- 19th/20th century French revs called for overthrow of capitalism and intro of workers control of the econ
- Replaces/ dilutes capitalist control of economy
- Differing views of role of state in transformation
- Syndicalists = hostile, instrument of oppression, incapable of initiating reform
- Call for replacement with form of workers control
- British Guild Socialists = internally divided
- All argued for state ownership of industry pursuing workers control
- Some wanted state to remain same
- Some wanted it replaced with federal body of workers' guilds etc
- All argued for state ownership of industry pursuing workers control
- Syndicalists = hostile, instrument of oppression, incapable of initiating reform
- Important step to socialist soc
- Moderate workers control provides method of limited reforms
- Industrial self management by workers living under state socialism reinforces idea that soc society should raise status and condition of working class
- Critics- schemes are utopian, don't recognise that business needs risktakers + investors
- Workers often lack entrepreneurial attributes
- Workers control = adverse effects on economic viabilityy of workplace
- Complete/ partial ownership of economic enterprise by employees
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