Gramsci and the Labor-Managed Firm

Bruno Jossa

Review of Radical Political Economics, 2009, vol. 41, issue 1, 5-22

Abstract: According to Antonio Gramsci, workers' councils were transitional institutions expected to carry on business in a market economy and thereby prepare the ground for the revolution. However, upon seizing power, workers were expected to establish a centrally planned system and, hence, to renounce autonomous firm management. Finding fault with this approach, the author upholds modern labor management theory, in which Vanek's LMF-type firms are looked upon as socialist firms operating in a market economy.

Keywords: labor-managed firms; socialism; Gramsci; Ward and Vanek (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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