File on workers' control in Portugal (I)

Abstract

This file devoted to the «workers' control» and the «production control», inside the Portuguese experiment, aims to the diffusion of certain documents considered to be important and significant concerning this issue. Taking a necessarily incomplete basis of documentation for its starting-point, even if it was carefully collected, the file now published by Análise Social, only the first part for the moment, is not and could not be exhaustive. The selection of documents was made under two criteria mainly: to give the preference to those documents issued by state offices, workers' committees and the trade union organization, excluding those documents directly issued by political organizations. One will consider the political-ideological heterogeneity of the documents, so that a vision of the different orientations under confrontation may be possible. This file has two parts: the first including documents that deal with the «control» under a global and generic perspective; the second including documents or propositions for the concrete appliance of the «control» at the sector and the enterprise level.