Hello: In a free market most citizens can become entrepreneurs and they will then own and control the means of production. In a free market most citizens may purchase the stock of companies on the stock exchange. They will then own a part of those companies and their means of production. We cannot all own all of the means of production. That isn't ownership. When the state owns the means then the individual person owns nothing. The workers taken together may be sovereign as an ideal but it is impossible for the individual worker/citizen to control the whole of the economy.
Karl Marx posited in 'Das Kapital", that the means of production should be taken by force and operated by teams of technocrats who were responsible to the People's "Natural Rulers" by which he mean the land owning nobility. So Marx didn't actually promote worker control and ownership of production. Marx promoted a people with equal power and ownership controlled by a few well meaning wise people. A people who were essentially powerless and owned nothing.
The answer to the question is: "The Free Market Economists" believe the worker should own and control the means of production. Each worker may own all of his own company or part of a jointly owned and controlled productive activity. That is the underlying condition in a free market and a free society. In America we frequently see an arrangement where the workers actually own part of and have some control of the company where they work. This is all accomplished by voluntary cooperation. Free markets provide ownership without force. By definition, totalitarian societies use coercion to compel obedience in a system where most everyone owns nothing and have little control of their own lives.
Socialists
The workers should control the means of production
Karl Marx believed that the workers, or the proletariat, should completely control production in order to establish a classless society and eliminate exploitation by the capitalist class. He envisioned a system where workers collectively owned and managed the means of production.
The group that believes workers should own the means of production and equally divide their profits is typically associated with socialism or communism. These ideologies advocate for collective ownership and the redistribution of wealth to ensure that all workers benefit equally from their labor. In practice, this can manifest in various forms, including cooperative businesses and state ownership of industries.
one of them is that workers should control the means of production.
Yes socialism emerged during the Industrial Revolution because the workers believed that they should control the means of production.
The people do, or everybody does (same thing).
Serbia felt that they should control Kosovo.
The people should control production and distribution. Production should take place to meet human need.
Socialism advocates for public rather than private control of property. It believes that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole, rather than by private individuals.
Workers should protect clients from violent clients and supervise them. If you have a problem out of your control, you should call your local police department.
Who should be in control of the industtal means of productio such as factories