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.
Below is a list of the pamphlets from the IWC series along with link to PDF’s of each pamphlet.
IWC Pamphlet No. 1- The Way Forward for Workers’ Control – Hugh Scanlon. Download PDF: IWC 01
IWC Pamphlet No. 2- Productivity Bargaining and Workers’ Control – Hugh Scanlon. Download PDF: IWC 02
IWC Pamphlet No. 3- Labour and Sterling – Michael Barratt Brown. Download PDF: IWC 03
IWC Pamphlet No. 4- Opening the Books – Michael Barratt Brown. Download PDF: IWC 04
IWC Pamphlet No. 5- The Labour Party’s Plans for Industrial Democracy – Ken Coates and Tony Topham. Download PDF: IWC 05
IWC Pamphlet No. 6- Workers’ Control and the Motor Industry – Bob Harrison and Walter Kendall. Download PDF: IWC 06
IWC Pamphlet No. 7- Steel Workers Next Step – A Group of Sheffield Steel Workers. Download PDF: IWC 07
IWC Pamphlet No. 8- Industrial Democracy and National Fuel Policy – A Miners’ Programme. Download PDF: IWC 08
IWC Pamphlet No. 10- A Socialist Strategy for Western Europe – Ernest Mandel. Download PDF: IWC 10
IWC Pamphlet No. 11- Soviets in Italy – Antonio Gramsci. Download PDF: IWC 11
IWC Pamphlet No. 12- The Dockers’ Next Step – Hull and London Port Workers’ Control Groups. Download PDF: IWC 12
IWC Pamphlet No. 13- Four Steps for Progress: The Operation of a Municipal Transport System with Workers’ Control – Jack Ashwell with a Foreword by Bill Jones. Download PDF: IWC 13
IWC Pamphlet No. 14- The ‘Big Flame’ and What is the IWC? – Ken Coates and Michael Barratt Brown. Download PDF: IWC 14
IWC Pamphlet No. 15- The Law versus the Unions – Ken Coates and Tony Topham. Download PDF: IWC 15
IWC Pamphlet No. 16- Job Evaluation and Workers’ Control – Ray Collins. Download PDF: IWC 16
IWC Pamphlet No. 17- General Electric Company – English Electric – Michael Barratt Brown, Ken Coates, Ken Fleet, Richard Fletcher, Brian Nicholson, Freddie Silberman, and Tony Topham. Download PDF: IWC 17
IWC Pamphlet No. 18- A Hope for the Miners? – John Hughes. Download PDF: IWC 18
IWC Pamphlet No. 19- Bertrand Russell and Industrial Democracy – Ken Coates and others. Download PDF: IWC 19
IWC Pamphlet No. 20- Farm Workers’ Control – Nick Hillier. Download PDF: IWC 20
IWC Pamphlet No. 21- Problems of Trade Union Democracy – Richard Fletcher. Download PDF: IWC 21
IWC Pamphlet No. 22- Workers’ Control & the Transnational Company – Hugh Scanlon. Download PDF: IWC 22
IWC Pamphlet No. 23- The Threat to the Steel Workers – The Scunthorpe Group. Download PDF: IWC 23
IWC Pamphlet No. 24- Trade Union & Rising Prices – Evidence of the IWC to the Court of Enquiry. Download PDF: IWC 24
IWC Pamphlet No. 25- UCS Workers’ Control: The Real Defence against Unemployment is attack! – John Eaton, John Hughes & Ken Coates. Download PDF: IWC 25
IWC Pamphlet No. 26- UCS: The Social Audit- A Special Report by the IWC. Download PDF: IWC 26
IWC Pamphlet No. 27- U.C.S An Open Letter- Brian Nicholson. Download PDF: IWC 27
IWC Pamphlet No. 28- Whatever happened at U.C.S?- Ken Fleet. Download PDF: IWC 28
IWC Pamphlet No. 29- Public Enterprise Defended – Michael Barratt Brown. Download PDF: IWC 29
IWC Pamphlet No. 30- The Fight Against Unemployment- Ernie Roberts. Download PDF: IWC 30
IWC Pamphlet No. 31- What Really Happened to the Coal Industry – Michael Barratt Brown. Download PDF: IWC 31
IWC Pamphlet No. 32- Docks III: A National Strategy – Brian Nicholson & Walt Greendale. Download PDF: IWC 32
IWC Pamphlet No. 33- The New Society – John Eaton. Download PDF: IWC 33
IWC Pamphlet No. 34- The Incomes Problem – Paul Derrick. Download PDF: – IWC 34
IWC Pamphlet No. 35- State Ownership, Workers’ Control & Socialism – Walter Kendall. Download PDF: IWC 35
IWC Pamphlet No. 36- How far can the structure meet our demands?- Tony Benn, Walt Greendale and others. Download PDF: IWC 36
IWC Pamphlet No. 37- Catching Up with the Times: How Far the TUC Get the Message About– Ken Coates and Tony Topham. Download PDF: IWC 37
IWC Pamphlet No. 38- Public Ownership and Democracy – Michael Barratt Brown and Stuart Holland. Download PDF: IWC 38
IWC Pamphlet No. 39- Health & Safety A Question of Workers’ Control – Tony Topham. Download PDF: IWC 39
IWC Pamphlet No. 40- Workers’ Control in the Mining Industry – Eric Varley. Download PDF: IWC 40
IWC Pamphlet No. 41- The Flixborough Disaster – John Greyston. Download PDF: IWC 41
IWC Pamphlet No. 42- Sit-in at Fisher Bendix – Tom Clarke. Download PDF: IWC 42
IWC Pamphlet No. 43- A New Approach to Public Ownership – Bristol Aircraft Workers. Download PDF: IWC 43
IWC Pamphlet No. 44- A Hundred Years of Farmworkers Struggle – Joan Maynard. Download PDF: IWC 44
IWC Pamphlet No. 45- Industrial Democracy – Tony Benn. Download PDF: IWC 45
IWC Pamphlet No. 46- Why Imperial Typewriters must not close – Trade Union Action Committee. Download PDF: IWC 46
IWC Pamphlet No. 47- Workers’ Control in Allende’s Chile – Andrew Zimbalist and James Petras. Download PDF: IWC 47
IWC Pamphlet No. 48- Labour and the Slump – Tony Benn. Download PDF: IWC 48
IWC Pamphlet No. 49- A Ten-year Industrial Strategy for Britain – Tony Benn, Frances Morrell and Francis Cripps. Download PDF: IWC 49
IWC Pamphlet No. 50- Accountability and Industrial Democracy – Michael Barratt Brown and Ken Coates. Download PDF: IWC 50
IWC Pamphlet No. 51- A New Course for Labour – Tony Benn. Download PDF: IWC 51
IWC Pamphlet No. 52- Workers’ Control in Portugal– Report from Russell Commission. Download PDF: IWC 52
IWC Pamphlet No. 53- Ashfield: What’s Going Wrong? – Ken Coates. Download PDF: IWC 53
IWC Pamphlet No. 54- Ford: Shop Stewards on Industrial Democracy – Bernie Passingham and Danny Connor. Download PDF: IWC 54
IWC Pamphlet No. 55- Lucas: An Alternative Plan. Download PDF: IWC 55
IWC Pamphlet No. 56- A Reply to Arthur Scargill – Ken Coates. Download PDF: IWC 56
IWC Pamphlet No. 57- The Cuts: Strange Arithmetic – John Hughes. Download PDF: IWC 57
IWC Pamphlet No. 58- Radical and Socialism- Peter Hain and Simon Hebditch. Download PDF: IWC 58
IWC Pamphlet No. 59- Industrial Democracy in Local Government– Mike Somerton. Download PDF: IWC 59
IWC Pamphlet No. 60- Industry, Technology and Democracy – Tony Benn. Download PDF: IWC 60
IWC Pamphlet No. 61- Industrial Development and Democratic Planning: The Case of Belvoir – Ken Coates. Download PDF: IWC 61
IWC Pamphlet No. 62- The Right to Know – Tony Benn. Download PDF: IWC 62
IWC Pamphlet No. 63- A Shorter Working Week – John Hughes. Download PDF: IWC 63
IWC Pamphlet No. 64- A Debate on Workers’ Control – Arthur Scargill, Audrey Wise & Mike Cooley. Download PDF: IWC 64
IWC Pamphlet No. 65- Democracy Versus the Circumlocution Office – The Lucas Aerospace Combine Shop Stewards’ Committee. Download PDF: IWC 65
IWC Pamphlet No. 66- The Need for a Free Press – Tony Benn. Download PDF: IWC 66
IWC Pamphlet No. 67- The Case for a Constitutional Premiership – Tony Benn. Download PDF: IWC 67
IWC Pamphlet No. 68- The First Worker Co-operators: Proposals for Raising a College of Industry – John Bellers. Download PDF: IWC 68
IWC Pamphlet No. 69- The Case for a Constitutional Civil Service – Tony Benn. Download PDF: IWC 69
IWC Pamphlet No. 70- De-industrialisation – John Hughes. Download PDF: IWC 70
IWC Pamphlet No. 71- Refreshing the Parts that others cannot reach – Peter Hain. Download PDF: IWC 71
IWC Pamphlet No. 72- The Case for Party Democracy – Tony Benn. Download PDF: IWC 72
IWC Pamphlet No. 73- Those Company Profits – John Hughes. Download PDF: IWC 73
IWC Pamphlet No. 74- Poland: 1980 – Tony Topham. Download PDF: IWC 74
IWC Pamphlet No. 75- Arthurian Myth and Legend Re-considered – Tony Topham. Download PDF:
IWC Pamphlet No. 76- Towards Democratic Socialism – Eric Heffer. Download PDF: IWC 76
IWC Pamphlet No. 77- How to Select or Reselect your MP – Chris Mullin and Charlotte Atkins. Download PDF: IWC 77
IWC Pamphlet No. 78- Job Creation by the Council – Michael Ward. Download PDF:
IWC Pamphlet No. 79- Local Enterprise and Workers’ Plans – David Blunkett, Brian Davey, John Bennington, Mike George. Download PDF: IWC 79
IWC Pamphlet No. 80- Some Lessons for Workers’ Co-ops – Denis Gregory. Download PDF:
IWC Pamphlet No. 81- Democracy in the Engineering Union – E & R Frow and Ernie Roberts. Download PDF: IWC 81
IWC Pamphlet No. 82- Task Force against Poverty, Low Pay & Unemployment – Michael Meacher, Ken Coates and Walter Greendale. Download PDF: IWC 82
IWC Pamphlet No. 83- Proportional Misrepresentation – Peter Hain & Geoff Hodgson. Download PDF: IWC 83
IWC Pamphlet No. 84- Trade Unionism: A Strategy for the 1980s – Tony Benn. Download PDF: IWC 84
IWC Pamphlet No. 85- Fighting Privatisation: The Struggle for Wandsworth – David Benlow & Jan Scott. Download PDF: IWC 85
IWC Pamphlet No. 86- Trade Unions and Politics: Labour and the Workplace- Ken Coates and Tony Topham. Download PDF: IWC 86
IWC Pamphlet No. 87- Fighting Privatisation: The Victory in Gloucester. Download PDF:
IWC Pamphlet No. 88- Trade Unions & Political Action – Ken Coates and Tony Topham. Download PDF: IWC 88
IWC Pamphlet No. 89- Woman’s Lot: Political Purdah & The Labour Party – Anselm Eldergill. Download PDF: IWC 89
IWC Pamphlet No. 90- Nowt for Nowt – John Hughes. Download PDF: IWC 90
IWC Pamphlet No. 91- Socialism 21 – Ken Coates. Download PDF: IWC 91
IWC Pamphlet No. 92- 1000 Hours by the Year 2000 – Ken Coates, Ron Todd, Peter Glotz & Andre Gorz. Download PDF: IWC 92
IWC Pamphlet No. 93- Europe 1992 – Michael Barratt Brown. Download PDF: IWC 93