Dear Log,
«The carrot is just the stick by other means.»
--"The Abolition of Work"
historical examples
I think the revolution in Spain in 1936 provides some really neat examples of what worker control can do. In the villages, production increased even though the young men were all off in the militias.
It is my impression that anarchism works well in practice, if the government doesn't come in and kill everyone trying to do it.