Dario Azzellini

Dario Azzellini is visiting research fellow at the ILR School, Cornell University (Ithaca). He received his PhD. in political science from Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, and his PhD. in sociology from Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico. His primary research interests are labour sociology, workers’ struggle, local and workers’ self-management, and social movements and protest. He has published more than 20 books, numerous other writings and 11 documentary films in the areas of critical labour studies and global social change with a special focus on Latin America and Europe.

He recently authored Vom Protest zum sozialen Prozess: Betriebsbestzungen und Arbeiten in Selbstverwaltung (VSA 2018); and Communes and Workers’ Control in Venezuela: Building 21st Century Socialism from Below (Brill 2017). And he edited If Not Us, Who? Workers against authoritarianism, fascism and dictatorship (VSA 2021); The Class Strikes Back. Self-Organised Workers’ Struggles in the Twenty-First Century (Brill 2018); and Ours to Master and to Own: Worker Control from the Commune to the Present (Haymarket 2011). Together with Oliver Ressler he is producing Occupy, Resist, Produce, a series of documentaries on recuperated factories under workers control in Europe. His work is translated into a variety of languages.

More information is available on his personal website at: www.azzellini.net.