An episode of the “Red Medicine” podcast with interview guest Jess Thorne has recently been released. The episode discusses the topic of worker’s self-management and is thematically close with a report on worker led innovation by Jess Thorne that was published earlier this year. Here’s the description of the podcast episode:
“Jess Thorne returns to the podcast to discuss workers’ self-management – from the Lucas Plan of the 1970s to Yugoslavian workers’ councils. She explains how workers have challenged the idea that innovation only happens thanks to top-down management structures and asks what worker autonomy offers in the face of current political problems.
Jess Thorne is a trade union organiser who has spent the last two years assisting health care assistants with a rebanding campaign. She is also a labour historian and has contributed to journals such as European History Quarterly, Labour History Review and History Workshop Journal.”
You can listen to the whole episode here.