Worker-selected factory commissars replaced union-picked appointees in Turin’s councils

Evidence

23 Th is principle represented a big shift with respect to the war industrial committees: no longer were the commissars picked by unions, who— as the worker Arturo Jacchia remarked— “took care of picking the members of the committee from the workers who were agreeable to the administration.” Instead, “Today it is preferable that [the commissars] belong to socialist organizations” (Jacchia 1919, I, n. 9, 66). — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 1675

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Factory councils aimed to merge economics and politics through workers’ control — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 581; A small-circulation journal organized factory councils across Turin’s major factories. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 91; World War One’s war economy transformed Turin’s industrial and class composition (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• A small-circulation journal organized factory councils across Turin’s major factories. #expands (0.82) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 91
• World War One’s war economy transformed Turin’s industrial and class composition #complicates (0.72)