The Cooperative Workplace

Klappentext This book provides evidence on how worker cooperatives are functioning today. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Joyce Rothschild, Joyce Rothschild-Whitt, J. Allen Whitt
• Assisted by: Ernest Q. Campbell (Editor)
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.06.2009
• EAN: 9780521379427
• ISBN: 978-0-521-37942-7
• Series: American Sociological Associat
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management