Historical Examples of Workplace Takeovers: Difference between revisions

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Historical Examples of Workplace Takeovers is a list of efforts by workers to take over their workplaces and run them according to the principles of self-management or workers' control.

By Country

Main Article: Workers' Control by Country

Australia

In Northern Queensland from 1908 to 1920, the IWW and the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union organized a degree of workers' control among meat industry workers. From 1970 to 1980, Australia saw a massive wave of workers' control corresponding with strikes all over the country (Some authors have also argued that the green bans (1970 - 1977) constitute a form of workers' control) Including:

1971: Harco Work-In
1972: Clutha Development Mine Work-In
1972: Sydney Opera House Work-In
1972: Whyalla Glove Factory Work-In
1974: Wyong Plaza Work-In
1975: Nymboida Mine Work-In
1975: Coal Cliff Work-In
1978: Sanyo Television Factory Work-In
1979: Union Carbide Work-In
1980: Department of Social Security Work-In
1990: Melbourne Tramworkers' Strike

Timeline

1994: Zapatista Revolution
2012: Rojava Revolution

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 === Australia ===
-In Northern Queensland from [[Timeline of Libertarian Socialism in Oceania|1908]] to [[Timeline of the IWW|1920]], the [[Industrial Workers of the World|IWW]] and the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union organized a degree of workers' control among meat industry workers. From 1970 to 1980, Australia saw a massive wave of workers' control corresponding with strikes all over the country (Some authors have also argued that the [[Green Bans|green bans]] (1970 - 1977) constitute a form of workers' control) Including:
+In Northern Queensland from [[Timeline of Anarchism in Oceania|1908]] to [[Timeline of the IWW|1920]], the [[Industrial Workers of the World|IWW]] and the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union organized a degree of workers' control among meat industry workers. From 1970 to 1980, Australia saw a massive wave of workers' control corresponding with strikes all over the country (Some authors have also argued that the [[Green Bans|green bans]] (1970 - 1977) constitute a form of workers' control) Including:
 * 1971: [[Harco Work-In]]
 * 1972: [[Clutha Development Mine Work-In]]