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

INDEX

Aftonbladet, 133

ALC (Arbetslivcentrum), 121, 125

Allende, Salvador, 333, 351

AFSCME (American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees), 25

AMA (American Management Associations), 46

American Productivity Center, 47

American Society for Training and Development, 46

Anarcho-syndicalism, 198–202

Apra, 334, 335

Arguments, 201

ASQC (American Society of Quality Controls), 46–47

Assises du Socialisme, 211

Association of Cooperatives, 256

AT&T (American Telephone and Telegraph), 76, 77, 78, 88; and HOBIS (Hotel Office Business Information System), 78. See also Technology Change Committees

Auroux Laws, 218–20

Autogestion, 5, 198–223. See also CFDT; CGT; French Socialists; PCF; PSU

Bell Laboratories, 76, 80

Bendix, Reinhard, 63

Bermudes, Morales, 335, 349

Bernstein, Eduard, 177

Betriebsräte (works councils), 3, 163, 169, 184

Bismarck, Otto von, 174, 176, 177

BITU (Bustamente Industrial Trade Union), 332, 340, 341, 359n.28

Böckler, Hans, 182

Brandt, Willy, 168

Brannen, Peter, 6

Braverman, Harry, 7, 11. See also Deskilling; Labor process, debates on

Brus, Włodzimierz, 303, 323nn.15, 16

Bujak, Zbigniew, 279

Burawoy, Michael, 30–31n.14, 63nn.1, 4, 172nn.17, 19

Business leadership, 36, 41, 45; in Japan, 48–49; in Sweden, 49–51; in the United States, 38–39, 45–48

Bustamente, Alexander, 359n.28

Cassa Integrazione Guadagni, 148, 154, 169

Castoriadis, Cornelius, 206

Catholic left, 200, 202, 204, 205, 215

CDU/CSU (Christlich-Demokratische Union/Christlich-Soziale Union), 183, 185

Central planning, 225; and investment cycles, 226; in Hungary, 225, 228; in Yugoslavia, 228

CERES (Centres d’Etudes et de Recherches Socialistes), 212, 213, 214

CFDT (Confédération Française Démocratique du Travail), 204; decentralization strategies of, 205, 209; evolution away from autogestion, 215–16; resyndicalisation, 215, 218, 220; support for autogestion, 208, 209, 295; and union de la gauche, 211–12

CFTC (Confédération Française des Travailleurs Chrétiens), 202, 204

CGT (Confédération Générale du Travail), 6, 204, 205; adopts autogestion, 213, 220; and gestion démocratique, 209; statist orientation of, 204, 208

CGT-FO (Force Ouvrière), 204

Chinese Communist Party: Eleventh Party Congress, Third Plenum (November 1978), 298, 304; and enterprise Party committees, 304–305, 311, 312; and Marxism-Leninism, 299; reassertion of, controls in enterprise, 306; and recruitment problems, 322n.7; Twelfth Party Congress, Fifth Plenum (September 1985), 321; Twelfth Party Congress, Third Plenum (October 1984), 298

Chinese trade unions, 308–10; limited independence of, 313–14, 327n.63; membership of, 325n.40; Ninth Trade Union Congress, 308; Tenth Trade Union Congress, 308, 316, 317; and worker congresses, 325n.42

Christian Democracy, 333, 334, 343; left wing of, in Chile, 330–31

CI (Industrial Community), 339–40, 344–46, 352, 355

Citrus Company of Jamaica, 342

Cole, Robert, 4, 5, 6, 17

Comités d’entreprise, 200, 218

Common Program (1972), 207

Communist Party of Chile, 337, 343

Communist Party of Peru, 334, 335, 349

Consigli di fabbrica, 3, 19, 144

Corporatism, 187

Craft, model of, 8, 11; traditions of, 174, 176; in unions, 158, 159, 168; by workers, 3–4

CUT (Central Unica de Trabajadores), 333, 339

CWA (Communication Workers of America), and QWL, 16, 51, 78–80, 90

DAIMI (Computer Science Department of Aarhus University, Denmark), 126

Data shop stewards, 12, 82, 86, 161

DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation), 73

De Gaulle, Charles, 203

Democratization of enterprise in China, 300; and depoliticization of enterprise, 300, 304, 307–308, 309, 312, 320; and East European reforms, 303–304; effect of Polish crisis on, 306, 308, 309–10, 317, 318; enterprise elections in, 309; and Hungary, 303, 307, 311, 318; and legitimacy, 300, 301; and modernization, 300, 302–304; non-institutional forms of, 314–18; and redistribution of authority relations, 300, 304–308; and shopfloor participation, 311. See also Economic reform in China

DEMOS project (Democratic Planning and Control in Working Life), 121–22, 162

Deng Xiaoping, 303, 304, 309, 317, 319, 320; and democratization, 298, 311–12

Dependency, 350–53; compared in Jamaica, Chile, and Peru, 356; and decline of worker participation, 350–53; and functioning of worker participation, 340–46; and political base of worker participation, 332–35; and reform projects, 335–38; and structure of participatory design, 331, 338–40

Deskilling, 7, 10, 11, 34, 191. See also Braverman, Harry; Labor process, debates on

Development Council, 50

Drucker, Peter, 72

Eayrs, Michele, 26

Echange et Projets, 26

Economic reform in China: and factory manager responsibility system, 305, 308; and Reform Decision of 1984, 307, 308, 310, 311; and Soviet model, 307, 319. See also Democratization of enterprise in China

ECWAs (Enterprise Contract Work Associations), 224, 251, 252, 253, 254

Electricité de France, 221n.6

Emery, Fred, 29

Engels, Friedrich, 177

Enterprise councils (Hungary), 224, 254–59, 265–66. See also NEM

Equity gap, 9

Espinosa, Juan, 347

ETHICS (“Effective Technical and Human Implementation of Computer-based Systems”), 73, 75

Eurocommunism, 212

European Social Fund, 171n.8

European Trade Union Institute, 151

Export reliance, 6

FDP (Freie Demokratische Partei), 186

Flexible specialization, 7

Ford Foundation, 46

Ford Motor Company, 51

Fraser, Steve, 3

Frei, Eduardo, 336

French Socialists, 200, 201, 204, 206; and formation of French Socialist party, 207; and union de la gauche, 207

Gastarbeiter, 185

Gdansk Agreements, 268

General Motors, 44, 51

Gerschenkron, Alexander, 143, 170

Gierek, Edward, 273

Gomułka, Stanisłew, 303

Gorz, André, 206

Grace Kennedy Corporation, 341

Graham, Gregory, 30–31n.41

Gramsci, Antonio, 3

Green party, 194

Harman Industries, 24–25

Harvard Business School, 79

Hayashi, Masaki, 72

Hinrichs, Karl, 26

Howard, Robert, 12, 13, 14, 24

HSWP (Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party), 224, 246, 251, 252, 253, 254, 258, 259

Human relations, 34, 35. See also Quality circles; QWL; Small group participation

Hundred Flowers campaign, 319

Huta Warszawa, 291

IAQC (International Association of Quality Circles), 47–48

IBEW (International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers), 90

IBM, 14, 116, 155

IG Chemie, 188

IG Druck und Papier, 163, 193, 197

IG Metall, 164, 186, 188; humanization of work program of, 186–87, 190–93. See also Steinkühler, Franz

IMF (International Monetary Fund), 335, 340, 349, 350, 352, 353, 354; impact of, austerity policies on worker participation, 331, 342

Imtec, 125

Industrialization, patterns of, 171, 174, 175, 176

Industrial relations traditions, 140, 167; in Britain, 142, 167; in Germany (West), 142; in Hungary, 228; impact of technological change on, 140–41, 147–51; in Italy, 143–51, 167, 169; in Scandinavia, 142, 168

Informal practices of participation, 81, 82, 83

International competition, 14, 39, 44, 51, 76, 87–88, 99, 138

Investitionslenkung, 186, 190

Jakubowicz, Szymon, 271, 280

JALGO, 346

Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation, 346

Jamintel, 342

Jaruzelski, Wojciech, 282, 290

JLP (Jamaica Labor Party), 332–33

JUSE (Japan Union of Scientists and Engineers), 37, 48–49

Jusos, 186

Kadar, Janos, 321n.3

Kang Wenhua, 313

Kaoru, Ishikawa, 49

Keen, Peter, 69

Keidanren (Japanese Federation of Economic Organizations), 49

Kelman, Steven, 21–22

Kochan, Thomas, 15–16

KOR (Committee for the Defense of the Workers/Committee for Social Self–Defense), 270, 271, 272

Korsch, Karl, 3

Kosta, H. G., 324n.27

Kowalewski, Zbigniew, 271, 289

KSR (Conferences of Workers’ Self-Management), 267, 284, 290

Kuron, Jacek, 270, 272

Labor market, 36–37, 42–45, 328n.72

Labor market shortages: in East Europe, 318n.72; in France, 5, 208; in Hungary, 249–50, 328n.72; in Japan, 5, 42–43, 53; in Sweden, 5, 42; in West Germany, 185

Labor market surpluses: in China, 318; in the United States, 44

Labor process, debates on, 7–8. See also Braverman, Harry; Deskilling

Lange, Oscar, 270

LCY (League of Communists of Yugoslavia), 227, 228, 235–36

Lefort, Claude, 206

Legien, Carl, 180

Lenin Shipyard, 278, 284

Lenin Steel Mill, 245

Libenstein, Harvey, 303

Liber AB, 121, 124

Lip strike, 208, 210

Liu Zhengwei, 314

Li Xiannian, 316, 317, 324n.27

LO (Norwegian Federation of Trade Unions), 82, 122

LO (Swedish Confederation of Labor), 50, 55, 56, 96, 97, 118; and collective bargaining over workplace democracy, 105–108; and industrial policy, 102–105, 106; labor market policy of, 101–102, 103, 104; and research policy, 110–13; and technology bargaining, 108–10, 120, 126, 127

LOFO (Swedish LO research committee), 110–11, 114–18, 119. See also LO (Swedish)

LOT (Polish national airline), 284

Lublin Group, 296n.39

Macropolitics of work reform, 35, 56–63; non-politicized patterns of diffusion (Japan and the United States), 58; and organization theory, 59–63; politicized patterns of diffusion (Sweden), 58

Maire, Edmond, 212

Mallet, Serge, 206

Manley, Michael, 332, 335, 338, 347

Mao Zedong, 298, 301, 316, 318–19, 321, 327n.65

Martin, Andrew, 12, 13, 14

Marxism, 174, 175, 201; and alienation, 303; and participation, 4; and technology, 11

MBA (co-determination agreements), 118–19

MBL (Co-determination Law), 55, 56, 63n.3, 108, 116, 118, 119, 122, 160

Meidner, Rudolf, 101–102

Merkel, Jacek, 289

Metalworkers union (Sweden), 119, 120

Michnik, Adam, 270

Micropolitics of work reform, 35, 36

Milewski, Jerzy, 271–75, 294n.15

Military impact on technology, 30n.32, 116

Mill, John Stuart, 4

Mitbestimmung (West Germany), 163, 176, 185, 189; laws on, 188, 189, 191, 197

Mitterand, François, 207, 211–14

Models of technological development: negotiation, 68, 80–87; organization-centered, 68, 70–74, 75; technocentric, 68–70, 73, 76, 88

Modzelewski, Karol, 288

Montanmitbestimmung, 183

Moore, Barrington, 178, 179

Mueller-Jentsch, Walther, 187

Multiskilling, 11, 43, 149

Mumford, Enid, 73

NADA (Institute for Numerical Analysis and Computer Science Group), 126

NAF (Norwegian Employers Confederation), 82, 122

Napthali, Fritz, 181

Naschold, Frieder, 190

Nationalization, in France, 217, 222n.36

Naville, Pierre, 206

NBF (Norwegian Bank Employees Union), 85–87

NEM (New Economic Mechanism), 225, 228, 229; bargaining with state organizations under, 264; enterprise autonomy under, 250; enterprise autonomy under, compared with Yugoslavia, 240–44; intrafirm power relations under, 244–50; managerial elites under, compared with Yugoslavia, 237–38; and mergers, 243–44; political elites under, compared with Yugoslavia, 239–40; prices under, 249; profits under, compared with Yugoslavia, 239; and self–management, 251, 254–60, 265–66; and small firms, 242–43; and trade unions, 245–47

Network (Network of Solidarity Workplace Organizations of Leading Workplaces), 270–73, 281, 282, 287, 288, 291; plan of, for self-management, 275–79, 283. See also Milewski, Jerzy

NGU (Nordic Graphic Workers Union), 121, 124, 125

Nikkeiren (Japan Federation of Employers’ Associations), 48

Ni Zhifu, 317

Nomenklatura: in Hungary, 229; in Poland, 283, 287

Nordic Industrial Fund, 124

Normative theory and participation, 4–5

Norwegian Industrial Democracy project, 81

Norwegian post office, 83–85, 90

Norwegian Work Environment Act of 1977, 18, 20, 82, 89, 161

Nouvel Observateur, Le, 210

NWU (National Workers Union), 332, 341

OCAW (Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union), 10

Occupational demarcations: and new technology, 152; and technology bargaining, 14, 15, 131–32, 136, 152, 157 59, 163, 166, 168

Occupational health and safety: in European Economic Community, 19–20; in Germany, 163–64, 187; and industrial democracy, 20; in Italy, 155–56; in Norway, 20–21; and participation, 18–22, 166, 168, 170; rule-based strategies for, 18–20; in Sweden, 21, 99–100, 106, 107–109; in the United States, 21–22. See also Norwegian Work Environment Act of 1977; OSHA

OD (Organizational Development) Network, 46

Offe, Claus, 26

Olivetti, 149

One-man management: in China, 307; in Hungary, 228

Organizational environments, 35

OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration), 21–22

Pacey, Arnold, 68, 80

Panitch, Leo, 187

Parker, Mike, 15

Paul, Marcel, 221n.6

PCF (Parti Communiste Francais), 199, 200, 201, 204; and autogestion, 215, 220; and statist model of economic management, 206, 208; and union de la gauche, 206

Perrow, Charles, 36, 60

Personnel Administration Council, 50

Piaget, Charles, 210

Piore, Michael, 6, 14, 29n.20

Pizzorno, Allessandro, 143, 170

PNP (People’s National Party of Jamaica), 332–34, 336; and egalitarian reform project, 335

Polish Sociological Association, 290–91

Pompidou, Georges, 211

Popular Front, 200

Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph, 198, 216

PSU (Parti Socialiste Unifié), 209; and autogestion, 209–10; entry of, into Parti Socialiste, 210–11; and union de la gauche, 211

PTK (Privattjönstemannakartellen), 98, 118

Quality circles, 4, 13, 219; in Japan, 4, 39, 67, 72; in the United States, 37. See also QWL

Quality Shoe Factory, 243

QWL (Quality of Work Life), 16–17, 24, 25, 77–78. See also Quality circles

RABA Motor Works, 242

Rehn, Gösta, 101–102

Resources: for participation, 13, 15, 80, 113, 116, 125; for technology bargaining, 15–16, 98–99, 113, 134–35

Reynolds Aluminum (Jamaica), 342

Robotnik, 272

Rocard, Michel, 210–14; anticommunism of, 213; and neoliberalism, 214–15; and struggle with Mitterand, 214

Ross, George, 5

Saab, 37

Sabel, Charles, 6, 14, 29n.20

SACO/Sr (Swedish upper-level white-collar union), 97, 101

SAF (Swedish Employers’ Confederation), 50, 105, 118, 119

Schmitter, Philippe, 187

Schneider, Leslie, 12, 13, 14, 24

Scientific management, 3, 6, 9, 26, 52, 53, 62, 69, 95, 145–46; in China, 302–303

Segmentation, 26–27

SEIU (Service Employees International Union), 25

Self-management in Poland: after the coup, 290; conflicting conceptions of, 285; as democratic managerialism, 276–77; flagging support of, 289; and hiring and firing of directors, 277–78; and intellectuals, 270–72, 273; and Lublin Group, 296; and marketization, 278–79; myth of, 282, 289; National Federation of, 289; and the Network, 270–72, 274; and nomenklatura, 283, 287; and production intelligentsia, 272–75; and Solidarity national leadership, 281, 283–84, 286; and Soviets, 287; and traditional working class, 273

Semi-autonomous work groups, 37, 40–41, 55

SFIO (Section Française de l’Internationale Ouvrière), 207, 210

Shell Canada, 10–11, 24

Shōshūdanshugi (small groupism), 39. See also Small group participation

Sik, Ota, 303

SINAMOS (Peruvian agency for national mobilization), 348

Sirianni, Carmen, 4–5, 26

Självstyrande grupper (autonomous self-steering work groups), 40. See also Small group participation

Skill: gap, 8–9; surplus, 8–9; upgrading, 145, 149, 152. See also Braverman, Harry; Deskilling; Labor process, debates on; Multiskilling

Skilling, Gordon, 321n.4

Small group participation, 4, 34, 70; in China, 319–29; in Japan, 4, 39–40; in Sweden, 40; in the United States, 38–39. See also QWL

Socialisme ou Barbarie, 202, 206, 221n.11

Sociotechnical reform, 5, 6, 10, 17, 25, 27; and work time, 23–24

Solidarność (Solidarity), 4, 250, 268, 306; and Draft Program of Current Action, 268; national leadership and self-management of, 281; and self-limiting revolution, 280; we/they consciousness of, 267–68. See also Kuron, Jacek; Self-management in Poland; Wałęsa, Lech

SPD (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands), 174, 176; in Grand Coalition (1966–69), 185–86; in Weimar, 180. See also Brandt, Willy

Staniszki, Jadwiga, 280

State building: and party in Hungary, 227–28; and self-management in Yugoslavia, 226–27

Statuto dei Lavoratori, 156

Steinkühler, Franz, 188, 191, 192

Strassmann, Paul, 70

STU (Swedish R&D support agency), 107, 112, 120, 126, 127, 133, 136, 139

Student movement, and participation ideologies in France, 205–206

Study circles, in occupational health and safety, 20–21; in technology bargaining, 12

Su Shaozhi, 302, 323n.16

Svenska Dagbladet, 121

Syndicalism, 4

Szlajfer, Henryk, 271

Tavistock Institute, 49, 50. See also Emery, Fred; Trist, Eric

Taylorism. See Scientific management

TCO (Central Organization of Salaried Employees), 50, 55, 97, 101, 120

Team organization, 8–9, 10, 150. See also Quality circles; QWL; Small group participation

Technology bargaining, 11–15, 108–37; at AT&T and Bell operating companies, 77; before and after the fact, 11–12, 83; in Britain, 156–59; multi-level strategies for, 15, 30n.33, 171; in Norway, 82–87; and right of information disclosure, 150–53, 157, 158; in Sweden, 108–37, 160–61; and training, 154–55, 171; in West Germany, 162–64

Technology Change Committees, 77–80, 81

Technology consultants, 82

Terminology of participation, diversity of meanings among, 3–4, 38, 41, 51

Thorsrud, Einar, 49, 55

TIPS (Text and Image Processing System), 121, 124, 125, 133

TIU (Telecommunications International Union), 90n.2

Topeka system, 8–9. See also Walton, Richard

Touraine, Alain, 281

Trist, Eric, 29n.22

UAW (United Automobile Workers of America), 16, 44, 51

UAWU (University and Allied Workers Union of Jamaica), 341, 346

Union de la gauche, 206, 207, 211–14

Unions and participation, 11–17, 36; in Chile, 329–30, 333, 339, 343, 344–8, 354–55; in Jamaica, 338, 340–41, 346–47, 354; in Japan, 53–54; in Peru, 334, 337, 340, 344–45, 349–50, 354–55; in the United States, 15–17. See also CFDT; CGT; Democratization of enterprise in China; LO (Norway); LO (Sweden); NEM; Solidarność; Yugoslav self-management

UP (Unidad Popular), 333, 336, 339, 343, 351

URAF (Swedish Development Council research group), 50–51, 55

User participation, 72–74

UTASP (Union of Technical, Administrative and Supervisory Personnel of Jamaica), 340–41

UTOPIA project, 12, 14, 99, 120–37, 162; tool perspective of, 127–28, 134

VDTs (video display terminals), 84, 155, 157, 163

VDUs. See VDTs

Veblen, Thorsten, 273

Viking, Askim, 87–88

Vittori, Wendy, 74

Volvo, 37, 43

Walder, Andrew, 315

Wałęsa, Lech, 288, 291, 316

Walton, Richard, 8, 9, 74

Wang Jiachong, 316, 327n.68

War, 5

Weber, Max, 315

Weil, Simone, 317, 324n.29

Weimar Republic: Rätebewegung during, 178, 182; unions and councils during, 179–80; Zentrale Arbeitsgemeinschaft during, 179

Wells, Donald, 30–31n.41

Wiesenthal, Helmut, 26

Willey, Richard, 185

Williams, Robin, 157

Women: and labor market segmentation, 27; and participation, 12, 27, 85; and work time, 25

Work Environment Fund (ASF), 112, 119, 126

Workers’ councils in Yugoslavia, 229; convergence of interests of, with enterprise managements, 231–32, 263; powers of, 229. See also Yugoslav self-management

Workers’ Daily, 308, 314

Workers’ Party of Jamaica, 346

Work in America Institute, 46

Works councils (Sweden), 54, 56

Work time: innovations, 5, 22–26, 77, 78; and participation in Germany, 192–94, 197; reduction of, 157, 161, 163, 164, 168, 169, 170, 192–94; and women, 25

Wujec, Henryk, 289

Wynn, Eleanor, 74

Yugoslav self-management: and communes, 262; and Hungarian NEM compared, 229; ideology of, 229; institutions of, 229; large firm behavior under, compared with Hungary, 243–44; managerial elites under, 229–35; managerial elites under, compared with Hungary, 238; peasant workers under, 262; political elites under, compared with Hungary, 236–39; profits under, compared with Hungary, 239; role of party under, 229, 235–36; role of trade union under, 229, 235–36; socio-political communities under, 261

Zhao Ziyang, 322n.6

Zimbalist, Andrew, 347

Zuboff, Shoshanna, 10

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