Nonviolence versus Capitalism

Anders Corr, No Trespassing! Squatting, Rent Strikes, and Land Struggles Worldwide (Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 1999).

2.

Kalle Lasn, Culture Jam: The Uncooling of America(TM)[ (New York: Eagle Brook, 1999) and the magazine Adbusters.

Notes to chapter 7

1.

There is no definitive work on nonviolent action by workers. Lots of material is available in writings on nonviolent action (see chapter 2), studies of workers’ control (see below) and history of the labour movement. See for example Root & Branch (ed.), Root & Branch: The Rise of the Workers’ Movements (Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1975).

2.

T. R. Chouhan and others, Bhopal: The Inside Story. Carbide Workers Speak out on the World’s Worst Industrial Tragedy (Goa, India: The Other India Press; New York: Apex Press, 1994); Sanjoy Hazarika, Bhopal: The Lessons of a Tragedy (New Delhi: Penguin, 1987); Paul Shrivastava, Bhopal: Anatomy of a Crisis (London: Paul Chapman, 1992, 2nd edition).

3.

It is possible to imagine rare exceptions, for example jobs in designing nonviolent alternatives to the military.

4.

Gerry Hunnius, G. David Garson and John Case (eds.), Workers’ Control: A Reader on Labor and Social Change (New York: Vintage, 1973); Paul Mattick, Anti-Bolshevik Communism (London: Merlin, 1978); Ernie Roberts, Workers’ Control (London: Allen & Unwin, 1973); Jaroslav Vanek (ed.), Self-Management: Economic Liberation of Man (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975); H. B. Wilson, Democracy and the Work Place (Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1974).

5.

Oscar Anweiler, The Soviets: The Russian Workers, Peasants, and Soldiers Councils, 1905- 1921 (New York: Pantheon, 1974). For an insightful analysis of workers’ control and revolutionary action, see Carl Boggs, “Marxism, prefigurative communism, and the problem of workers’ control,” Radical America, Vol. 11, No. 6 — Vol. 12, No. 1, November 1977 — February 1978, pp. 99-122.

6.

Seymour Melman, Decision-Making and Productivity (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1958) is one of many studies showing that productivity can be increased by extending workers’ capability in decision making.

7.

Hilary Wainwright and Dave Elliott, The Lucas Plan: A New Trade Unionism in the Making? (London: Allison and Busby, 1982).

8.

Paul Blumberg, Industrial Democracy: The Sociology of Participation (London: Constable, 1968); Martin Carnoy and Derek Shearer, Economic Democracy: The Challenge of the 1980s (White Plains, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1980).

9.

For example, Donald Ralph Kingdon, Matrix Organization: Managing Information Technologies (London: Tavistock, 1973); Charles C. Manz and Henry P. Sims, Jr., Business Without Bosses: How Self-Managing Teams are Building High-Performing Companies (New York: Wiley, 1993).

10.

On the changing rhetorics in management consulting, see Robert Jackall, Moral Mazes: The