“…Medeiros Ferreira, for example, argues that the nationalizations made it possible for the military to take control of the financial system 36 and Silva Lopes points out the effects that had on the economic situation. 37 As mentioned above, in 1975 the nationalized companies employed 8% of the active population. The nationalizations were made under pressure from the workers who often came together in large meetings occupying the company installations and demanding their nationalization.…”
Workers' control is one of the most interesting but least studied phenomena of Portugal's revolutionary period. That is obviously a paradox because the existence of workers' control is one of the criteria for defining a period as being revolutionary—as we will argue. In this article, we analyze the theoretical questions around the concept of “workers control,” the difference with the processes of self‐management; empirical cases of companies under workers' control in 1975 in Portugal. From these we analyze the relation between workers, state and revolution, with emphasis on the dual power.
“…Medeiros Ferreira, for example, argues that the nationalizations made it possible for the military to take control of the financial system 36 and Silva Lopes points out the effects that had on the economic situation. 37 As mentioned above, in 1975 the nationalized companies employed 8% of the active population. The nationalizations were made under pressure from the workers who often came together in large meetings occupying the company installations and demanding their nationalization.…”
Workers' control is one of the most interesting but least studied phenomena of Portugal's revolutionary period. That is obviously a paradox because the existence of workers' control is one of the criteria for defining a period as being revolutionary—as we will argue. In this article, we analyze the theoretical questions around the concept of “workers control,” the difference with the processes of self‐management; empirical cases of companies under workers' control in 1975 in Portugal. From these we analyze the relation between workers, state and revolution, with emphasis on the dual power.
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