CHRISTOPHER S. ALLEN is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Georgia, and was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Harvard Business School in 1984–86. He is currently examining the role of employer associations, trade unions, and regional governments in the formation of West German industrial policy. Recent publications include “The Federal Republic of Germany,” in Mark Kesselman and Joel Krieger, eds., European Politics in Transition (Lexington: D. C. Heath, 1987); and “Germany: Competing Communitarianisms,” in George C. Lodge and Ezra Vogel, eds., Ideology and National Competitiveness (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1987). With A. Markovits, he was the coauthor of the German portion of Unions and Economic Crisis: Britain, West Germany and Sweden (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1984).
ROBERT E. COLE is Professor of Sociology and Business Administration at the University of Michigan. He is a long-term student of Japanese work organization and is the author of Japanese Blue Collar and Work, Participation and Mobility. Most recently, he has edited The U. S. and Japanese Auto Industries in Transition. He is currently completing a book on the diffusion of small-group activities in industry in the United States, Japan, and Sweden. He is also conducting research on organizational strategies for quality improvement.
ELLEN COMISSO is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of Workers’ Control Under Plan and Market (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979), a study of Yugoslav self-management. Her most recent work is as an editor and contributor to Power, Purpose and Collective Choice: Economic Strategy in Socialist States (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, forthcoming), originally published as a special issue of International Organization (Spring 1986).
GIUSEPPE DELLA ROCCA conducts research on labor in Milan, Italy. His work has been devoted particularly to the study of the social impact of technical-scientifical progress. He has written widely on the relationship between the changes in the labor market and industrial relations. His books include Potere e democrazia nel sindacato (Roma: Edizioni Lavoro, 1979) and Sindacato e organizzazione del lavoro (Milano: Franco Angeli, 1982).
ROBERT HOWARD is a Cambridge, Massachusetts, writer and the author of Brave New Workplace (New York: Elisabeth Sifton Books/Viking Press, 1985). A summa cum laude graduate of Amherst College, Howard has studied sociology and history at the University of Cambridge in England and the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France. His articles on work and technology have appeared in a variety of magazines, including The New Republic, The Nation, Mother Jones, and Technology Review.
ANDREW MARTIN is a political scientist on the staff of the Center for Technology, Policy and Industrial Development at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology. He is also an associate of the Harvard University Center for European Studies, where he codirected a study of union responses to economic crisis in five European countries and was responsible for the section on Sweden. This and several other publications reflect a long-standing interest in the Swedish labor movement and political economy, but his main concern has been the comparative politics of economic policy in the advanced industrial countries, and he is currently working on the dynamics of interdependence among those countries.
HENRY NORR is a Visiting Lecturer for Russian and East European Studies at Stanford University, and is completing a book on self-management in Poland for Cornell University Press. Before specializing in Soviet and East European studies, he worked as a printer, machinist, and community college teacher. His articles on work and workers in the Soviet bloc have appeared in Soviet Studies, Survey, Poland Watch, and Socialist Review.
GEORGE ROSS is Professor of Sociology at Brandeis University and Senior Associate at the Center for European Studies at Harvard. He is author of Workers and Communists in France (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982); Unions, Change and Crisis: France and Italy, volume 1 (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1982), with Peter Lange and Maurizio Vannicelli; The View From Inside: A French Communist Cell in Crisis (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984), with Jane Jenson; Unions, Change and Crisis: the United Kingdom, West Germany, and Sweden (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1984), with Peter Gourevitch and Andrew Martin; and coeditor of The Mitterand Experiment: Continuity and Change in Socialist France (Cambridge, U.K.: Polity Press, 1986).
LESLIE SCHNEIDER is an associate of the Harman Program on Technology, Public Policy and Human Development in the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. She also serves as a consultant on technology management and work organization to a variety of public and private institutions in the United States and Europe. Dr. Schneider has recently written about some of the most advanced efforts to include workers in the design and implementation of new workplace technological change. She is a coeditor of Systems Design: For, With and By the Users and Women, Work and Computerization: Opportunities and Disadvantages (both published by North-Holland in Amsterdam).
CARMEN SIRIANNI teaches sociology at Northeastern University in Boston and is a research fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard. He is the author of Workers Control and Socialist Democracy: The Soviet Experience (London: Verso/NLB, 1982), and has coedited two previous books for Temple University Press: Work, Community, and Power: The Experience of Labor in Europe and America, 1900–1925, with James Cronin (1983), and Critical Studies in Organization and Bureaucracy, with Frank Fischer (1984). In 1985-86 he was a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow and member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where he prepared Of Time, Work and Equality, to be published by Basil Blackwell’s Polity Press in Cambridge, U.K. He is coeditor of the Labor and Social Change series of Temple University Press.
EVELYNE HUBER STEPHENS is Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University. She is the author of The Politics of Workers’ Participation: The Peruvian Approach in Comparative Perspective and the coauthor of Democratic Socialism in Jamaica: The Political Movement and Social Transformation in Dependent Capitalism, as well as of several articles on reformist political movements and governments in Latin America and West Europe. Her current research deals with the role of government-sponsored accommodations between labor and capital in the consolidation of democracy and in the pursuit of socioeconomic reform in Latin America and the Caribbean.
JEANNE L. WILSON received a Ph.D. in political science from Indiana University and is currently an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts. She is the author of several articles on Chinese labor policy. At present, she is working on a comparative study of Chinese and Soviet labor.