worker control
Staff-run decision making
Worker control is a system where employees rather than owners or managers direct how a business operates.
This ranges from limited input on workplace conditions to full ownership and governance, as in worker cooperatives.
The term appears in labor movements and socialist thought: The factory transitioned to worker control after the owner retired.
They advocated for worker control of the means of production.
- unionizationForming a labor collective
- workplace democracyCollective worker control of business
- shop floorIndustrial production workspace
- rank and fileOrdinary members collectively
- cooperativesMember-owned collective enterprises
self-management · syndicalism · direct action · labor strikes · general strike · sit-down strike · mutualism · profit sharing · socialism · collective action · grassroots organizing · Marxism · labor solidarity · collective bargaining · guild socialism · anarchism · kibbutz · egalitarianism
- socialismMarxism, communism, proletariat, bourgeoisie, communal ownership
- leftismMarxism, socialism, communism, leftist, socialist
- socialist economicscollective ownership, common ownership, communal ownership, state ownership, public ownership
- Syndicalismsyndicates, Wobblies, direct action, general strike, guild socialism
- worker democracyworkplace democracy, self-management, employee ownership, collective ownership, cooperatives
- anarchismanarchy, anarchism, Emma Goldman, Goldman, anarcho-communism
worker controltop-down management
Leadership from the hierarchy's apex
corporate governance · absentee ownership · centralized control · command and control · board control
worker controlcapitalism
Private profit-based economy
corporate capitalism · managerialism · Taylorism · scientific management · Fordism
work, worker, workers, working, worked, workable, unworkable, workman, workmanship