{"id":968,"date":"2026-04-22T06:01:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T06:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iscidenetimi.net\/?p=968"},"modified":"2026-04-22T08:27:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:27:19","slug":"workers-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iscidenetimi.net\/?p=968&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Workers\u2019 Control"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Definition<\/strong><br>Workers\u2019 control refers to the direct or indirect involvement of workers in the production process and the management of an enterprise. This intervention is carried out through workers\u2019 own forms of organisation (such as councils, committees, trade unions, etc.) and can take different degrees of intensity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Scope<\/strong><br>Workers\u2019 control encompasses a broad range of areas, from the organisation of production to working conditions, and from decision-making processes to enterprise policies. In this sense, workers are not merely providers of labour power, but collective actors actively intervening in the production process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Distinction<\/strong><br>Workers\u2019 control differs from worker participation and workers\u2019 self-management:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Worker participation refers to the limited and institutionalised involvement of workers in management.<br>Workers\u2019 control involves a more direct intervention in the production process through grassroots organisations.<br>Workers\u2019 self-management refers to a situation in which both ownership and management are entirely in the hands of workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Historical example<br><\/strong>One of the most well-known examples of workers\u2019 control is the factory committees that emerged in Russia in 1917. Through these committees, workers directly intervened in both production and enterprise management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Assessment<\/strong><br>Workers\u2019 control can be understood as a practice that emerges within capitalist production relations while carrying the potential to partially transform them. In this sense, it can be seen both as a form of struggle and as an intermediate form in the transition towards alternative production relations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workers\u2019 involvement in production and management through collective organisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-concepts","category-workers-control"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iscidenetimi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iscidenetimi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iscidenetimi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iscidenetimi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iscidenetimi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iscidenetimi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":970,"href":"https:\/\/iscidenetimi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions\/970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iscidenetimi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iscidenetimi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iscidenetimi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iscidenetimi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}