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The Institute drew together shop stewards and militant workers to discuss workers' control of production. It grew out from the Workers' Control Conferences organised from 1964 by The Week and the Voice and the Centre for Socialist Education. From around 100 at the first meeting in Nottingham, the figure grew to some 1200 in 1969.

The Institute won sponsorship from a number of trade union leaders, including [[Hugh Scanlon]]. In the later opinion of the [[International Marxist Group]]'s journal, the Institute over-accomodatedaccommodated to its sponsors and failed to organise its supporters: "only 26 people attended the AGM in 1970, and affiliation and membership fees have been maintained at a very high level."

* Coates and Topham [http://www.spokesmanbooks.com/Readings%20and%20Witnesses.htm Readings and Witnesses for Workers' Control]