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<span style='font-size: 14px;'>Workers' Control Books</span>Workers' Control Books

Workers' Control is participation by workers of any establishment in the management of their place of work and their ability to control production.

The Institute for Workers' Control was founded in 1968 by Tony Topham and Ken Coates and in this section of our site you can find many of their writings on the subject.

<span style='font-size: 14px;'>Readings and Witnesses for Workers' Control</span>Readings and Witnesses for Workers' Control
Edited by Tony Topham and Ken Coates

This book of Readings and Witnesses for Workers' Control seeks to show the rich history of the trade union movement to win a voice in the government of industry for the people who do the work in it.

Price: £9.99

504 pages | ISBN: 978 0 85124 6994
Paperback | Socialist Renewal 5:1


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<span style='font-size: 14px;'>Workers' Control</span>Workers' Control
by Ken Coates

Trade Unionists in Britain pursued their hope of a more fulfilling life in the secure knowledge that if they joined together, a better world was indeed possible. Now, a new generation of trade unionists, internationally, may in turn draw inspiration from the ideas and experiences of those who came together in pursuit of industrial democracy and workers' control.

'This book is a significant contribution to the ongoing discussion around issues of workers' control...'

Jeremy Dear National Union of Journalists, Andy Gilchrist Fire Brigades Union, Billy Hayes Communication Workers Union, Joe Marino Bakers, Food & Allied Workers' union, Mick Rix ASLEF, Mark Serwotka Public & Commercial Services Union, Tony Woodley Transport & General Workers' Union.

Read a review by Jim Mortimer


Price: £7.99

190 pages | Paperback
ISBN: 978 0 85124 6826
Socialist Renewal 3:7


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<span style='font-size: 14px;'>One Big Union:</span>One Big Union:
Reviewing the History of a Big Idea
by Ron Todd and Others

The two lectures published here celebrate the publication of the history of the Transport & General Workers’ Union. They show how the dream of its founders was the creation of ‘One Big Union’. With the formation of UNITE the Union, the realisation of that dream is brought that much closer. UNITE brings together people working in diverse occupations and locations, as did the founders of the T&G themselves all those years ago. In this booklet, Ken Coates and Tony Topham tell some of that story. For their full account, it is necessary as the reviewers urge, to read The Making of the Labour Movement.

Price: £6.00

67 pages
Available April 2008
ISBN: 978 0 85124 752 6


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<span style='font-size: 14px;'>The Making of the Labour Movement</span>The Making of the Labour Movement
The Formation of the Transport and General Workers' Union 1870-1922
by Ken Coates and Topham

This authoritative and comprehensive history does more than tell a story. It shows how trade unions created permanent organisation, based on "recognition" as a key concept. Those who had formerly been locked out from society now recognised their own strength in association, and saw that strength reflected in the eyes of their bosses.

Price: £15.00

909 pages
Indexed
ISBN: 978 0 85124 5652
Paperback


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<span style='font-size: 14px;'>The First Worker Co-operators</span>The First Worker Co-operators
by John Bellers

Introduction by Ken Coates

During the lifetime of the Labour Government which was elected in October 1974, the only experiment in industrial democracy to assume a tangible and practical form, was the creation of a number of workers' co-operatives, under the auspices of the Department of Industry, at the time that it was headed by Tony Benn.

Against great odds, in difficult commercial circumstances, and facing strong Civil Service opposition, the three co-operatives struggled on as long as they could. The First to die was the Scottish Daily News. Its story is documented in a book published by the Institute for Workers' Control, The New Worker Co-operatives.

Price: £2.00

30 pages | Pamphlet
ISBN: 978 0 85124 0664


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<span style='font-size: 14px;'>The New Worker Co-operatives</span>The New Worker Co-operatives
Edited by Ken Coates
with contributions by Tony Benn, A. J. Eccels,
Richard Fletcher, Ken Fleet, Derek Jones &
Allister Mackie.

This book recounts the experiences of the Merseyside plant of IPD (Fisher-Bendix), subsequently to become the Kirby Manufacturing and Engineering Company; of the Scottish Daily News; and of the Triumph Meriden motor-cycle enterprise. It attempts a preliminary evaluation of the successes and failures of these experiments, and it seeks to situate them in their place in co-operative history, Labour policy and socialist theory.

Price: £6.95

219 pages | Paperback
ISBN: 978 0 85124 1470


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<span style='font-size: 14px;'>Tom Mann</span>Tom Mann
Social and Economic Writings
Tom Mann

Tom Mann is widely recognised as a leading pioneer of socialism in Britain and one of the most important personalities of the period which saw the emergence of Labour as the political alternative to Conservatism. This book provides... a careful selection of writings which show his intellectual development.
Laurent’s introduction gives an account of Tom Mann’s life and political involvements.

Price: £7.95

148 pages | Paperback
ISBN: 978 0 85124 4686


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<span style='font-size: 14px;'>The Industrial Syndicalist</span>The Industrial Syndicalist
ed. by Tom Mann
with an Introduction by Geoff Brown

"... it is no longer possible for members of any political or religious party whatever to deny that there is, on foot, a great world Movement aiming definitely and determinedly at the economic emancipation of the workers.

A movement which... is constantly striving forward to the next stage in the Evolution of Mankind, where competition will have to give way to co-operation." Tom Mann

Price: £9.95

390 pages | Hardback - large format
ISBN: 978 0 85124 0817


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<span style='font-size: 14px;'>The Syndicalist</span>The Syndicalist
ed. by Tom Mann
with an introduction by Geoff Brown

The Syndicalist journal was edited under the auspices of the Industrial Syndicalist Education League. The purpose of the ISEL was "to popularise syndicalist principles amongst Trade Unionists with a view to the realisation of the Industrial Commonwealth." This volume reproduces in facsimile the issues of The Syndicalist from 1912-1914.

Price: £12.00

104 pages | Hardback large format
ISBN: 978 0 85124 0831


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