Socialist Renewal

The Institute for Workers' Control was formed in 1968, building on a series of conferences over several years, to act as a research and educational body, to encourage discussion and communication between workers' control groups and trade unions, and to publish important materials on industrial democracy and workers' control.

Here you will find PDFs of many pamphlets from the IWC series.

The Way Forward for Workers' Control - Hugh Scanlon - IWC Pamphlet No. 1

Productivity Bargaining and Workers' Control - Hugh Scanlon - IWC Pamphlet No. 2

Labour and Sterling - Michael Barratt Brown - IWC Pamphlet No. 3

Opening the Books - Michael Barratt Brown - IWC Pamphlet No. 4

The Labour Party's Plans for Industrial Democracy - Ken Coates and Tony Topham - IWC Pamphlet No. 5

Workers' Control and the Motor Industry - Bob Harrison and Walter Kendall - IWC Pamphlet No. 6

Steel Workers Next Step - A Group of Sheffield Steel Workers - IWC Pamphlet No. 7

Industrial Democracy and National Fuel Policy - A Miners' Programme - IWC Pamphlet No. 8

A Socialist Strategy for Western Europe - Ernest Mandel - IWC Pamphlet No. 10

Soviets in Italy - Antonio Gramsci - IWC Pamphlet No. 11

The Dockers' Next Step - Hull and London Port Workers' Control Groups - IWC Pamphlet No. 12

Four Steps for Progress: The Operation of a Municipal Transport System with Workers' Control - Jack Ashwell with a Foreword by Bill Jones - IWC Pamphlet No. 13

The 'Big Flame' and What is the IWC? - Ken Coates and Michael Barratt Brown - IWC Pamphlet No. 14

The Law versus the Unions - Ken Coates and Tony Topham - IWC Pamphlet No. 15

Job Evaluation and Workers' Control - Ray Collins - IWC Pamphlet No. 16

General Electric Company - English Electric - Michael Barratt Brown, Ken Coates, Ken Fleet, Richard Fletcher, Brian Nicholson, Freddie Silberman, and Tony Topham - IWC Pamphlet No. 17