Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-222) and index.
Introduction -- Control relations in a capitalist enterprise -- Industrial development and the working class in Iran -- Proletarianization -- Pre-revolutionary factories -- The industrial working class in the revolution -- The shuras: the emergence, structure and struggles -- The leaders and the led -- Historical and structural limitations of the shuras -- The politics of industrial relations in post-revolutionary Iran -- Workers' control and political democracy.