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Author : R. Yeoman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137370587
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.
Author : Daniel Zwerdling
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015015294187
Author : Donald V. Nightingale
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1982-12-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442655980
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.
Author : Martin Beirne,Harvie Ramsay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351330763
The revolution in new technology gave rise to new work patterns and improved productivity, all of which affect the management of human resources. Expectations for increased efficiency have not always been fulfilled because of the problems that have arisen in workings of labour relations. How can management maximize the benefits of these technologies while co-operating with their employees? How far are trade unions involved in the decisions as companies adopt new technology? Is the workforce consulted in systems design? This book, originally published in 1992 looks at the problems of developing strategies in information technology when considering labour relations. Experts in industrial sociology, human resource management and organizational behaviour assess the achievements and failures, including consideration of issues such as public sector work, gender and race. Drawing on empirical evidence, the contributors cover a wide range of industries including case studies in electronics and banking, together with international comparisons.
Author : Paul Bernstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:312622042
Author : Edward S. Greenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1988-08
Category : Arbejdskooperativer
ISBN : 080149530X
Author : David Ellerman
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030626761
This book argues for the abolition of the employment system in favor of workplace democracy and thus escapes the usual capitalism-versus-socialism binary choice by reframing the basic issue as the employment contract, not private property or a market economy. The author repositions the political and economic debate in the lineage of abolitionism - against the owning of other people - which in its modern version of neo-abolitionism would also abolish the renting, or hiring, employing, or leasing of other people. The overall argument is based on three recovered theories, each one of which is sufficient to yield the neo-abolitionist conclusion. These three rights-based theories are developed throughout the book. The three theories are 1) inalienable rights theory, 2) the natural rights or labor theory of property, and 3) democratic theory as based on a democratic constitution that only delegates governance rights versus a non-democratic constitution that alienates governance rights. The book, therefore, is a must-read for everybody interested in a better understanding of the political economy, workplace democracy, rights-based theories, and the employment system.
Author : Ruth Dukes,Wolfgang Streeck
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781509549009
In the countries of the global North, workplace democracy may be thought of as a thing of the past. Increasingly, working relations are regulated primarily by contract; workforces are fissured and fragmented. What are the consequences of this? How should we respond? Ruth Dukes and Wolfgang Streeck argue that the time is ripe to restate the principles of industrial democracy and citizenship for the post-industrial era. Considering developments within political economy, employment relations and labour law since the postwar decades, they trace the rise of globalization and the ‘dualization’ of labour markets – the emergence of a core and periphery of workers – and the progressive insulation of working relations from democratic governance. What these developments amount to, they argue, is an urgent need for political intervention to tame the new world of ‘gigging’ and other forms of highly precarious work. This, according to the authors, will require far-reaching institution-building designed to fill legal concepts such as ‘employment’ with political substance. This eloquent call for a reimagining and renewal of the institutional and material conditions of freedom of association and the reinvention of industrial democracy will be crucial reading for anyone interested in work in the twenty-first century.
Author : Ronald M. Mason
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039272021
Study on relationships between workers participation and political democracy, with particular reference to the USA - examines related political theories; finds that democratization of the workplace has a positive impact on workers' political participation and job satisfaction; includes a literature survey. References.
Author : Cynthia Estlund
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003-10-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780190289188
The typical workplace is a hotbed of human relationships--of friendships, conflicts, feuds, alliances, partnerships, coexistence and cooperation. Here, problems are solved, progress is made, and rifts are mended because they need to be - because the work has to get done. And it has to get done among increasingly diverse groups of co-workers. At a time when communal ties in American society are increasingly frayed and segregation persists, the workplace is more than ever the site where Americans from different ethnic, religious, and racial backgrounds meet and forge serviceable and sometimes lasting bonds. What do these highly structured workplace relationships mean for a society still divided by gender and race? Structure and rules are, in fact, central to the answer. Workplace interactions are constrained by economic power and necessity, and often by legal regulation. They exist far from the civic ideal of free and equal citizens voluntarily associating for shared ends. Yet it is the very involuntariness of these interactions that helps to make the often-troubled project of racial integration comparatively successful at work. People can be forced to get along-not without friction, but often with surprising success. This highly original exploration of the paradoxical nature--and the paramount importance--of workplace bonds concludes with concrete suggestions for how law can further realize the democratic possibilities of working together. In linking workplace integration and connectedness beyond work, Estlund suggests a novel and promising strategy for addressing the most profound challenges facing American society.
Author : Seymour Melman
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015053528751
After Capitalismis the apex of the life’s work of one of the most respected scholars of the American workplace. For nearly half a century, Seymour Melman has been an influential commentatoron capitalism, militarism and their discontents. InAfter Capitalismhe explores a growing trend in capitalist systems worldwide: workplace democracy. The end of the Cold War in 1991 inspired an unprecedented outburst of triumphalist rhetoric among proponents of unfettered capitalism. Free-marketeers believed that we were witnessing “the end of history,” and proclaimed that the market economy was here to stay, that all alternatives had been proven inferior. Melman, in dissent, tracks the increasing social and economic inequities and the resulting cries for workplace reform. He points out the ominous parallels between the Soviet Union’s planned economy and the relentless onward march of American capitalism. Just as the Soviet planned economy venerated “the State” above all else, American capitalism views the health and eternal expansion of the free market as the ultimate goal: both propagate vast and harmful income gaps, both rely on and promote militarism—and neither leaves much room for consideration of workers’ well-being. Melman analyzes the adverse economic impact of these flaws and oversights, which have led to “grave production weaknesses in the U.S. economy,” and he suggests an alternative to current economic organization that holds out the promise of both greater fairness and equity and more soundly balanced production. “Workplace democracy,” in which workers actively participate in the management of their workplace, is gaining ground in venues as diverse as Israeli kibbutzim and Basque factories. Melman explains how workplace democracy can, and why it should, be implemented in America.After Capitalismis the new century’s first essential book about labor: thoughtful, humane, at once commonsensical and revolutionary, Melman’s prescriptions can inspire changes in the way the world works.
Author : Richard Wolff
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781608462575
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
Author : Assistant Professor Dario Azzellini
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781783601561
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.
Author : Frank Lindenfeld
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015020727916
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.
Author : Paul Bernstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Decision making
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036713357
USA. Monograph on the dynamics of workers participation and workers self management systems - includes a range 8 case studies and attempts a model of six minimal components for the quality of working life. Bibliography pp. 121 to 127, graphs, diagrams and references.
