Shop stewards ranked workplace self-governance above parliamentary franchise

Evidence

Workers were “realizing that the right to vote for parliament, once in fi ve years, is of little value compared with the right to vote on the way industry should be carried on” (Gallacher and Campbell 1972, 3). — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 1676

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader library on participatory democracy and workers’ councils; the claim that economic democracy outranks political representation recurs in council-communism history. — connects to: Workers’ self-governance sought to abolish the wage relationship and production for profit — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention, 186

Broader Connections

• Workers’ self-governance sought to abolish the wage relationship and production for profit #expands (0.82) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 186