Postwar British and Italian strikes demanded workers’ control of production.
Evidence
In these pages we have shown how political imagination toward the abolition of private property and wage relations moved from abstraction to reality. In the fi rst place, the soaring “strikomania” of the British and Italian workers was political: it demanded new relations of production. Th ese demands took the form of the struggle for workers’ control that peaked in 1919– 1920 with the objective of selfgovernment to secure the emancipation of the majority. — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 457
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Postwar British and Italian strikes aimed to build democratic production relations — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 341; Italian agricultural workers won practical workplace self-governance through mass strikes in 1920 — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 379; Workers’ control of industry climaxed as a core demand in 1919-1920 — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 382 (+8 more)
Broader Connections
- Postwar workers rejected labor as a commodity and demanded democratic control of production
#corroborates(0.90) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 185 - Postwar strikes were political demands for workers’ self-government, not mere wage disputes
#expands(0.88) - Postwar workers demanded meaning and agency in production.
#corroborates(0.85) - British miners’ unions demanded nationalization and workers’ control as inseparable
#exemplifies(0.85) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 402 - Italian workers seized factory production across sixty cities in 1920
#exemplifies(0.85) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 10 - Postwar labor unrest aimed at revolution, not just wages.
#expands(0.82) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 375 - Rank-and-file shop committees turned strikes into organs of workers’ control
#expands(0.80) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 475