Download or read book Extending Workplace Democracy written by Steven E.. Deutsch and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Extending Workplace Democracy written by Andrew Nickelhoff and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Extending Workplace Democracy written by Andrew Nickelhoff and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Workplace Democracy and Social Change written by Frank Lindenfeld and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Case studies of the relationship between workers self management and workers control and social change, with particular reference to the USA - discusses psychological aspects (occupational psychology) of working in self-managed enterprises; investigates workers cooperatives, production cooperatives, insurance corporation, legal office and experimental school in Spain, the UK and the USA; considers the functioning (incl. Legal aspects) of American workers' cooperatives, and trade union attitudes. Diagrams, references, statistical tables.
Download or read book Workplace Democracy written by Daniel Zwerdling and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1984 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Disintegrating Democracy at Work written by Virginia Doellgast and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-15 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The shift from manufacturing- to service-based economies has often been accompanied by the expansion of low-wage and insecure employment. Many consider the effects of this shift inevitable. In Disintegrating Democracy at Work, Virginia Doellgast contends that high pay and good working conditions are possible even for marginal service jobs. This outcome, however, depends on strong unions and encompassing collective bargaining institutions, which are necessary to give workers a voice in the decisions that affect the design of their jobs and the distribution of productivity gains. Doellgast’s conclusions are based on a comparative study of the changes that occurred in the organization of call center jobs in the United States and Germany following the liberalization of telecommunications markets. Based on survey data and interviews with workers, managers, and union representatives, she found that German managers more often took the "high road" than those in the United States, investing in skills and giving employees more control over their work. Doellgast traces the difference to stronger institutional supports for workplace democracy in Germany. However, these democratic structures were increasingly precarious, as managers in both countries used outsourcing strategies to move jobs to workplaces with lower pay and weaker or no union representation. Doellgast’s comparative findings show the importance of policy choices in closing off these escape routes, promoting broad access to good jobs in expanding service industries.
Download or read book Workplace Democracy written by Edward S. Greenberg and published by . This book was released on 1988-08 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Feasibility of Workplace Democracy in Large Publicly Traded Corporations in the United States written by Brian Fontaine Snowden and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation deals with the feasibility of having large publicly traded corporations in the United States organized and operated on the principles and practices of workplace democracy. While the United States appears to be a model of democratic society, there seems to be widespread acceptance that democracy is limited to the civic lives of citizens. the research problem involves the interpretation of the term democracy and the legitimacy of expanding the term to include workplace democracy. There are reasons that the ideal of workplace democracy has not been embraced in the United States, which is a primary theme in this dissertation, and includes the issue of the primacy of the corporation as the avatar of capitalism and the reluctance of people to interfere with this economic system. Three methodologies were utilized: a philosophical inquiry was undertaken into the meaning of democracy and how this concept is translated into the everyday lives of people; discussion groups were organized to gather data about the ideas of people who work in large publicly traded corporations and their beliefs about workplace democracy; a case study was done of the world's largest worker cooperative, Mondragon CC of Spain. the key findings demonstrate that people do not understand the concept of workplace democracy, primarily because they have not been raised in institutions that practice democracy. Second, the economic system of capitalism is considered to be a highly effective one for economic growth, and people appear to believe that workplace democracy would not contribute to this success. Finally, the case study of Mondragon CC, the world's largest worker cooperative, demonstrates that a large democratic business can compete and prosper in a capitalist environment. the theoretical implication of this research is that workplace democracy can satisfy the need for the attainment of higher levels of participation and self-determination for all organizational members. Then there is the practical implication that the for-profit business organization be profitable and viable for the long term. Further research is required to reinforce the findings reached in this dissertation.
Download or read book The Polarity Management Model of Workplace Democracy written by William Joseph Benet and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thesis I develop a theoretical model of workplace democracy. My model builds on five broad categories of literature including five exemplary models in order to expand the applicability of workplace democracy to a greater number of workplaces. I identify three reasons for why I believe it is important to expand workplace democracy. First is the relationship of workplace democracy to occupational stress. I believe that: (a) workplace democracy is essential to address the negative impacts of occupational stress; but (b) most efforts to address occupational stress focus on the individual. Second is the relationship of workplace democracy to societal democracy. I believe that: (a) workplace democracy contributes to the attainment of societal democracy; (b) societal democracy contributes to the attainment of workplace democracy; and (c) the elements of workplace democracy are identical to those of societal democracy. Third is the relationship between democratic concepts and human evolution. I believe that: (a) democratic concepts, including both our altruistic and selfish impulses, may have been essential elements in the evolutionary development of the human species; and (b) our use of self-consciousness and human agency to construct and refine these democratic concepts may be essential for our continued evolutionary development and the survival of our species.Based on these beliefs, I use Johnson's (1996) polarity management concept as the conceptual framework to construct the Polarity Management Model of Workplace Democracy. The model consists of ten paired elements: (a) freedom-authority; (b) justice-due process; (c) diversity-equality; (d) human rights-organizational obligations; and (e) participation-regeneration. I argue that: (a) none of these elements works well without its paired element; (b) all ten of these elements are essential for the attainment of workplace democracy; and (c) none is sufficient independent of the others. This thesis is theoretical, in that I conceptualize my model but stop short of undertaking an empirical test of the model.
Download or read book Workplace Democracy written by Donald V. Nightingale and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1982-12-15 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book begins with a historical review of how authority in the Canadian workplace has changed over the past century. It proceeds to outline a theory of organization which provides a broad conceptual framework for the empirical analysis which follows. This theory is based on five concepts: the values of organizational members; the administrative structure of the organization; the interpersonal and intergroup processes; the reactions and adjustments of organization members; the social, political, economic, and cultural environments of the organization. A sample of 20 industrial organizations was selected to examine the effects of significant employee participation and to test the theory. They are matched pairs: ten permit some form of participation, and ten—similar in size, location, industry, union/non-union status, and work technology—follow conventional hierarchical design. The resulting data demonstrate that greater productivity results from employee participation in decisions relating to their work, in productivity bonuses, and in profit sharing and employee share-ownership plans.
Download or read book The Blue Eagle at Work written by Charles J. Morris and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Blue Eagle at Work, Charles J. Morris, a renowned labor law scholar and preeminent authority on the National Labor Relations Act, uncovers a long-forgotten feature of that act that offers an exciting new approach to the revitalization of the American labor movement and the institution of collective bargaining. He convincingly demonstrates that in private-sector nonunion workplaces, the Act guarantees that employees have a viable right to engage in collective bargaining through a minority union on a members-only basis. As a result of this startling breakthrough, American labor relations may never again be the same. Morris's underlying thesis is based on a meticulous analysis of statutory and decisional law and exhaustive historical research.Morris recounts the little-known history of union organizing and bargaining through members-only minority unions that prevailed widely both before and after passage of the 1935 Wagner Act. He explains how vintage language in the statute continues to protect minority-union bargaining today and how those rights are also guaranteed under the First Amendment and by international law to which the United States is a committed party. In addition, the book supplies detailed guidelines illustrating how this rediscovered workers' right could stimulate the development of new procedures for union organizing and bargaining and how management will likely respond to such efforts.The Blue Eagle at Work, which is clear and accessible to general readers as well as specialists, is an essential tool for labor-union officials and organizers, human-resource professionals in management, attorneys practicing in the field of labor and employment law, teachers and students of labor law and industrial relations, and concerned workers and managers who desire to understand the law that governs their relationship.
Download or read book Meaningful Work and Workplace Democracy written by R. Yeoman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-29 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a timely revival of the social and political importance of meaningful work, which explores a philosophy of work based upon the value of meaningfulness and argues for the institution of a new politics of meaningfulness.
Download or read book When Workers Decide written by Len Krimerman and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Preface to Economic Democracy written by Robert A. Dahl and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tocqueville pessimistically predicted that liberty and equality would be incompatible ideas. Robert Dahl, author of the classic A Preface to Democratic Theory, explores this alleged conflict, particularly in modern American society where differences in ownership and control of corporate enterprises create inequalities in resources among Americans that in turn generate inequality among them as citizens. Arguing that Americans have misconceived the relation between democracy, private property, and the economic order, the author contends that we can achieve a society of real democracy and political equality without sacrificing liberty by extending democratic principles into the economic order. Although enterprise control by workers violates many conventional political and ideological assumptions of corporate capitalism as well as of state socialism. Dahl presents an empirically informed and philosophically acute defense of "workplace democracy." He argues, in the light of experiences here and abroad, that an economic system of worker-owned and worker-controlled enterprises could provide a much better foundation for democracy, political equality, and liberty than does our present system of corporate capitalism. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986. Tocqueville pessimistically predicted that liberty and equality would be incompatible ideas. Robert Dahl, author of the classic A Preface to Democratic Theory, explores this alleged conflict, particularly in modern American society where difference
Download or read book An Alternative Labour History written by Assistant Professor Dario Azzellini and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global financial crisis has led to a new shop-floor militancy. Radical forms of protest and new workers’ takeovers have sprung up all over the globe. In the US, Republic Windows and Doors started production under worker control in January 2013. Later that year workers in Greece took over and managed a hotel, a hospital, a newspaper, a TV channel and a factory. The dominant revolutionary left has viewed workers' control as part of a system necessary during a transition to socialism. Yet most socialist and communist parties have neglected to promote workers' control as it challenges the centrality of parties and it is in this spirit that trade unions, operating through the institutional frameworks of government, have held a monopoly over labor history. Tracing Marx’s writings on the Paris Commune through council communism, anarcho-syndicalism, Italian operaismo, and other "heretical" left currents, An Alternative Labour History uncovers the practices and intentions of historical and contemporary autonomous workers’ movements that until now have been largely obscured. It shows that by bringing permanence and predictability to their workplaces, workers can stabilize their communities through expressions of participatory democracy. And, as history has repeatedly shown, workers have always had the capacity to run their enterprises on their own.
Download or read book Full Employment in a Free Society Works of William H Beveridge written by William H. Beveridge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-27 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beveridge defined full employment as a state where there are slightly more vacant jobs than there are available workers, or not more than 3% of the total workforce. This book discusses how this goal might be achieved, beginning with the thesis that because individual employers are not capable of creating full employment, it must be the responsibility of the state. Beveridge claimed that the upward pressure on wages, due to the increased bargaining strength of labour, would be eased by rising productivity, and kept in check by a system of wage arbitration. The cooperation of workers would be secured by the common interest in the ideal of full employment. Alternative measures for achieving full employment included Keynesian-style fiscal regulation, direct control of manpower, and state control of the means of production. The impetus behind Beveridge's thinking was social justice and the creation of an ideal new society after the war. The book was written in the context of an economy which would have to transfer from wartime direction to peace time. It was then updated in 1960, following a decade where the average unemployment rate in Britain was in fact nearly 1.5%.
Download or read book Democracy at Work written by Richard Wolff and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What, and who, are we working for? A thoughtful assessment on our current society from “probably America’s most prominent Marxist economist” (The New York Times). Capitalism as a system has spawned deepening economic crisis alongside its bought-and-paid-for political establishment. Neither serves the needs of our society. Whether it is secure, well-paid, and meaningful jobs or a sustainable relationship with the natural environment that we depend on, our society is not delivering the results people need and deserve. One key cause for this intolerable state of affairs is the lack of genuine democracy in our economy as well as in our politics. The solution requires the institution of genuine economic democracy, starting with workers managing their own workplaces, as the basis for a genuine political democracy. Here Richard D. Wolff lays out a hopeful and concrete vision of how to make that possible, addressing the many people who have concluded economic inequality and politics as usual can no longer be tolerated and are looking for a concrete program of action. “Wolff’s constructive and innovative ideas suggest new and promising foundations for much more authentic democracy and sustainable and equitable development, ideas that can be implemented directly and carried forward. A very valuable contribution in troubled times.” —Noam Chomsky, leading public intellectual and author of Hope and Prospects
