ABSTRACT
While the bulk of this book will deal with efforts for local control that have emerged from the community development movement, there is a parallel set of efforts for local control that instead has come from places of employment. These efforts share a lot with the community-based efforts that will be discussed in chapters 4 and 5, but rely on forms of worker ownership to allow people to realize local control over their economic lives. There is, of course, a long history to worker ownership in the United States, but the role and political meaning of workerownership have been significantly transformed in this era of economic globalization.
