Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] workers ' control " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does the Minister recall that when we discussed these matters during the passage of the Finance Bill the then Financial Secretary , now Chancellor of the Exchequer , expressed passionate enthusiasm for workers ' control ? |
| 2 | However that may have been , there is no doubting that at plant level and in two cases ( the Scottish Daily News and KME ) an ideological perception of workers ' control precluded the effective delegation of executive authority to management . |
| 3 | They had wrested factory management from the hands of the very right-wing Congress of Mining Industrialists which had disallowed even neutral forms of workers ' control in 1917 . |
| 4 | Old-style movements for workers ' control are no longer feasible in a world of transnationals and global production and semi-skilled labour . |
| 5 | Most initiatives arose from the ‘ movement left ’ — that amorphous network of local groupings , cultural ventures and autonomous campaigns that was the legacy of the libertarian revolts of the late 1960s and early 1970s — rather than from within the existing labour movement ( apart from the Institute for Workers ' Control , which in the mid-1970s looked as though it might become a major national forum for the newer movements of the 1970s and the earlier generation of intellectuals and trade unionists who had quit the Communist Party after 1956 ) . |
| 6 | Romania has many joint party-state organizations such as the Supreme Council for Economic Development , the Central Council of Workers ' Control of Economic and Social Activity , the Defence Council and the Council for Socialist Culture and Education : ‘ These organizations provide an infrastructure for blending party and state activities ’ ( Szajkowski 1981 , p. 47 ) . |
| 7 | Of course the government did not ‘ challenge capitalism ’ outright in the sense , for instance , of attempting massive nationalisation under workers ' control . |
| 8 | Democracy in the work-place with firms under workers ' control is also important . |
| 9 | It is particularly notable that neither in the mines nor in the other industries nationalised at that time was there any substantial movement towards workers ' control . |
| 10 | Discussions on workers ' control and the general strike to stop war also showed that an important section of the trade unions had reacted against gradualism , at least in words , and was returning to the syndicalist notions fashionable some ten years before . |
| 11 | Dame Margaret Cole , for instance , suggested that the General Strike killed off the ‘ romantic vision of workers ' control ’ . |
| 12 | On this view , then , there is a sharp dichotomy between workers ' control at enterprise level — as an element of socialism — and Industrial Democracy . |
| 13 | But the CGT technicians ' section came out in support of the students for workers ' control . |
| 14 | Of the Scottish Daily News , the study finds that it was inadequately financed from the outset ; was poorly equipped ; so applied the principle of workers ' control as to make ‘ executive decision taking impossible if not farcical ’ ; and produced an unacceptable product . |
| 15 | But precisely how this power was to be used to reach what appears to be the ultimate goal of workers ' control is not conceptualised . |
| 16 | There was also a reluctance to attempt the transformation of the unions which would have been required to turn them into instruments of workers ' control , since this would clearly have introduced an element of responsibility which was foreign to the previous practice of trade unionism , and would have meant taking on board the awkward problem of reconciling , within a reconstructed union framework , the interests of workers in the given nationalised industry and the interests of working people as a whole , as regards the running of that industry . |
| 17 | In the context of the mobilisation and assertiveness of organised labour under Heath 's government , the industrial policy proposals became charged with a stronger element of workers ' control which was seen as an essential component of the ‘ planning agreements ’ to be made with large enterprises , and vital to their enforcement . |