The cooperative workplace : potentials and dilemmas of organizational democracy and participation
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The cooperative workplace : potentials and dilemmas of organizational democracy and participation
(The Arnold and Caroline Rose monograph series of the American Sociological Association)
Cambridge University Press, 1986
- : hard
- : pbk
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  Tokushima
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  Saga
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  Kumamoto
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Note
Bibliography: p. 201-211
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Over the last several years worker cooperatives of many kinds have sprung up all around the world. As a result, industrial relations in the workplace have changed dramatically as workers have come to own and run their own enterprises. This book provides evidence on how these new enterprises are functioning today. Using evidence from their extensive research in various such firms, the authors identify the consequences for both the organisation and the workers when those who do the work also manage. Setting forth an original theory of democratic organisations, they reveal the very real dilemmas and trade-offs that democratic work organisations face, as well as the specific conditions in which workplace democracy flourishes or declines.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. Origins and Types of Alternative Organizations: 1. Cooperatives in the late twentieth-century: the democratic impulse and the challenge of oligarchy
- 2. The organizations studied, the methods used
- Part II. A Theory of Democratic organization: 3. The collectivist organization: an alternative to bureaucratic models
- 4. Internal conditions that facilitate collectivist-democratic organizations
- 5. External conditions that facilitate collectivist-democratic organizations
- Part III. The Significance of Democratic Organizations: 6. Democracy and individual satisfaction
- 7. The future of cooperation
- 8. Overview and conclusions
- Notes
- References
- Index.
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