The Cooperative Workplace: Potentials and Dilemmas of Organisational Democracy and Participation (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521379427)

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.

Author: Joyce Rothschild, J. Allen Whitt
ISBN-10: 0521379423
ISBN-13: 9780521379427
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/30/1989
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.29w x 0.85d