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THE BRECHT FORUM, CUNY GRAD, and HAYMARKET BOOKS ARE PROUD TO PRESENT Immanuel Ness and Dario Azzellini editors of: OURS TO MASTER AND TO OWN WORKERS’ CONTROL FROM THE COMMUNE TO THE PRESENT Wednesday, October 12, 6:30-8:30pm City University Graduate Center (CUNY) Room 5114 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10036 and Book Party / Forum with Ness, Azzellini, and Victor Wallis OURS TO MASTER AND TO OWN WORKERS’ CONTROL FROM THE COMMUNE TO THE PRESENT Monday, October 17, 8PM The Brecht Forum 451 West Street (between Bank and Bethune Streets) New York, NY 10014 https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=117325888374668 ----------------------------------- “Ours to Master and to Own is the most substantive and comprehensive work on workers control and self management today. I strongly recommend this work, which provides examples drawn from throughout the world of workers struggling for justice and power.” —GARY YOUNGE ----------------------------------- From the dawning of the industrial epoch, wage earners have organized themselves into unions, fought bitter strikes, and have gone so far as to challenge the very premises of the system by creating institutions of democratic self-management aimed at controlling production without bosses. Looking at specific examples drawn from every corner of the globe and every period of modern history, this pathbreaking volume comprehensively traces this often under-appreciated historical tradition. Ripe with lessons drawn from historical and contemporary struggles for workers’ control, Ours to Master and to Own is essential reading for those struggling to bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old. ----------------------------------- PRAISE FOR OURS TO MASTER AND TO OWN “Ness and Azzellini have made a major contribution in producing this insightful and exciting collection of essays on the question of workers control … I didn’t even have to open the book to know it is timely and offers great strategic insight.”—BILL FLETCH JR. author of Solidarity Divided “The seemingly logical and just idea that workers themselves should make the decisions regarding and reap the benefits of their labor has always been a fraught concept with the potential to topple or reform whole societies … This ambitious, copiously researched and clearly written text provides a sweeping diversity of examples, analyzed with cool detachment from the specific politics but with underlying passion for the larger concept.” —KARI LYDERSEN, author of Revolt on Goose Island “With the global capitalist order entering a period of crisis, but also with the dramatic increase in worker's struggles especially in the global South, this collection is extremely opportune. Workers will seek greater control over market forces and workers councils are bound to re-emerge. A must read for labour analysts and activists alike.” —RONALD MUNCK, theme leader for internationalization and social development at Dublin City University. ----------------------------------- IMMANUEL NESS is professor of political science at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. He edits WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society and writes on workers, migration, and revolutionary politics DARIO AZZELLINI is a lecturer at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austrai, and a documentary filmmaker. ----------------------------------- ISBN: 978-1-60846-1196 / $19 $22.95 CAN / Paperback / 400 pages ----------------------------------- Purchase 'Ours to Master and to Own': http://www.haymarketbooks.org/pb/Ours-to-Master-and-to-Own http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-9781608461196-0