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Worker Participation and the Politics of Reform

Edited by Carmen Sirianni


This collection examines not only the enormous diversity of imeanings and forms of worker participation in the contemporary period but also its global character. The chapters cover Western and Eastern Europe, the United States and Japan, China, and the Third World. Each of them is informed in some way by the conviction that worker participation is an eminently political phenomenon— that it is about politics and power at the level of the workplace, and that the larger context of social, political, and economic power and organization shapes what happens to participation locally. In this sense, the volume is not simply about internal workplace reforms. Nor is it a country-by-country survey of laws and institutions, but rather a collection of substantive analyses of the actual dynamics of participation and change.

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Table of Contents

Worker Participation and the Politics of Reform

  • Cover
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Worker Participation in the Late Twentieth Century: Some Critical Issues
  • 2. The Macropolitics of Organizational Change: A Comparative Analysis of the Spread of Small-Group Activities
  • 3. Worker Participation in Technological Change: Interests, Influence, and Scope
  • 4. Unions, the Quality of Work, and Technological Change in Sweden
  • 5. Improving Participation: The Negotiation of New Technology in Italy and Europe
  • 6. Worker Participation and the German Trade Unions: An Unfulfilled Dream?
  • 7. Autogestion Coming and Going: The Strange Saga of Workers' Control Movements in Modern France
  • 8. Industrial Relations and Economic Reform in Socialism: Hungary and Yugoslavia Compared
  • 9. Self-Management and the Politics of Solidarity in Poland
  • 10. The Institution of Democratic Reforms in the Chinese Enterprise since 1978
  • 11. Worker Participation, Dependency, and the Politics of Reform in Latin America and the Caribbean: Jamaica, Chile, and Peru Compared
  • About the Contributors
  • Index

Metadata

  • isbn
    9781439919675
  • publisher
    Temple University Press
  • publisher place
    Philadelphia, PA
  • restrictions
    CC-BY-NC-ND
  • rights
    Copyright © 1987 by Temple University—Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education

    First published 1987. Reissued 2019.

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