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Workers and Revolution in Iran

A Third World Experience of Workers' Control

by Asef Bayat ยท 1987

ISBN: 0862323894 9780862323899

Category: Business & Economics / Labor / General

Page count: 227

Based on a thesis, focuses on the workers of Iran and their experience of workers' control during the revolutionary period following the insurrection of February 1979. Considers the emergence of particular forms of work and workers' organizations, "shuras" or factory committees in the industrial workplaces; attempts to evaluate the experience and demise of the "shuras". Discusses the international dimension of the working class movement.