Concepts

Workers’ Councils

Collective decision-making bodies through which workers exercise direct influence over production and management processes.

Resources collectively used and governed by communities, together with the social relations that organise them.

Organisational forms based on democratic governance and collective ownership, established to meet the common needs of their members.

A concept referring to enterprises taken over and collectively managed by workers in response to crisis or closure.

A cooperative model in which the ownership and governance of digital platforms are collectively organised.

A set of alternative economic practices based on cooperation, reciprocity, and social benefit.

A form of organisation in which ownership and management are entirely in the hands of workers and decisions are made collectively.

Workers’ involvement in production and management through collective organisation.