Workers’ control of industry climaxed as a core demand in 1919-1920

Evidence

Overall, the “red years” of 1919– 1920 saw the call for workers’ control of land and industry reach its climax and become one of the most important political demands of the British and Italian postwar labor movements, taking center stage among the rank and fi le and even in the offi cial policy of the main unions. — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 382

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Postwar workers rejected labor as a commodity and demanded democratic control of production — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention, 185; Workers’ wartime indispensability empowered postwar demands to transform the economic system — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention, 174; Postwar British and Italian strikes demanded workers’ control of production. — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 457 (+5 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
• Workers’ wartime indispensability empowered postwar demands to transform the economic system #corroborates (0.88) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 174
• Postwar British and Italian strikes demanded workers’ control of production. #exemplifies (0.85) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 457
• Factory councils aimed to merge economics and politics through workers’ control #expands (0.80) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 581
• Rank-and-file shop committees turned strikes into organs of workers’ control #exemplifies (0.80) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 475
• The 1919 crisis broke capitalism’s claimed boundary between economic and political spheres #expands (0.75) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 110
• The 1920 factory occupations were a defensive employer-imposed confrontation #contradicts (0.75) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 104
• The 1920 depression fragmented union solidarity into defensive per-industry retreat #qualifies (0.72) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 412