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Workers Control - the idea that factories and other enterprises should be managed by the people who work there.

The idea of Workers Control is an old one. The Guild system could be seen as a form of workers control. It has been variously advocated by Anarchists, Socialists, Communists and Christian Democrats. It has been combined with various socialist and mixed-economy systems.

A form of workers participation was applied in West Germany after World War Two. Britain in the 1970s considered a version of it. The Bullock Report of 1977 had a definite schema, but there was considerable opposition, much of it from the Hard Left.