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An article that analyses how far Argentina’s worker-recovered companies have become sustainable production models whilst maintaining their values of equity and workers’ self-management.

Workers Control: The Czechoslovak Experience

Robert Vitak

Robert Vitak

Occupation, worker co-operatives and the struggle for power: Britain in the 1970s

Alan Tuckman

Britain in the 1970s was a period of crisis and polarisation. Workplace closure led to resistance by workers, which defined the relations between capital and labour for subsequent decades.

What if the workers were in control?

Hilary Wainwright

Hilary Wainwright reflects on an attempt by British workers to produce a democratically determined alternative plan for their industry.

Platform Cooperativism vs. the Sharing Economy

Trebor Scholz

Imagine that the algorithmic heart of the "Sharing Economy" could be cloned and brought back to life under a different model of ownership and work conditions, as a humane alternative to the market.