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The Union Carbide Work-In was an experiment in workers' control in Melbourne, Australia in 1979. After Union Carbide announced it would fire union workers in response to a 35-hour-workweek campaign, the workers took over the Altona Petrochemical Complex (owned by Union Carbide) and ran it for 51 days. Ending the campaign after they agreed to rehire all the workers.[1]
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- ↑ Immanuel Ness (2014) New Forms of Worker Organization: The Syndicalist and Autonomist Restoration of Class Struggle Unionism, Chapter 10: Doing Without the Boss: Workers' Control Experiments in Australia in the 1970s