Workers' control

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Workers' control is participation in the management of factories and other enterprises by the people who work there.

The idea of workers' control is an old one. The Guild system could be seen as a form of workers' control. It has been variously advocated by Anarchists, Socialists, Communists and Christian Democrats. It has been combined with various socialist and mixed-economy systems.

A form of workers participation was applied in West Germany after World War II. Britain in the 1970s considered a version of it. The Bullock Report of 1977 had a definite schema, but there was considerable opposition, much of it from the Hard Left. The Institute for Workers' Control was part of the left-wing opposition. Arthur Scargill was strongly opposed to the idea of giving coal workers control of their own industry.

Workers' councils are a form of workers' control.

In the early Soviet Russia, worker's control was accomplished via factory committees