During the Algerian Revolution, peasants and workers took control of factories, farms and offices that were abandoned, with the help of UGTA militants.
This caused massive corruption among new managers as well productivity and enthusiasm in the project to fall, leading to numerous strikes by workers in protest.
[1] In 1973, with the end of the self-proclaimed Argentine Revolution, there was a wave of strikes and workplace occupations that rocked the country as the first elections were held, mainly in state-owned industry.
500 occupations of workplaces were taken out overall, with 350 occurring between the 11th and 15 June, mostly of media outlets, health centres and public transport and government administration.
These occupations were predominantly done in support of Peronism, and failed to achieve any long lasting results on the eve of the Dirty War.
[1] During the Argentine Great Depression, hundreds of workplaces were occupied and ran according to the principles of workers' control by angered unemployed people.
[7] Around 70 bankrupted enterprises have been taken over by about 12,000 workers since 1990 as part of the recovered factories movement, mainly in the industries of metallurgy, textiles, shoemaking, glasswork, ceramics and mining.
[9] During the presidency of Salvador Allende (1970–1973) 31 factories were placed under workers' control in a system called Cordón industrial before being destroyed by Augusto Pinochet.
The Weimar Republic required workers' consultative committees in every business employing 20 people, which the Nazi government abolished.
Coal mines, shoe factories, hospitals, government offices, steel works and newspapers were the main sites taken over.
[26] The USSR experimented with workers' control with the Kuzbass Autonomous Industrial Colony thanks to the influence from IWW from 1922 to 1926 before being destroyed by the government.
[32] Workers' control was first practiced by the Diggers, who took over abandoned farm land and formed autonomous collectives during the English Civil War.
However, the poorly designed, top-down nature of the workers' councils led to corruption, cynicism and inefficiencies until they were destroyed in the Yugoslav Wars.