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Offers research on the character and implications of workplace participation. This book examines various outcomes, causes, and consequences related to participation programs and worker democracy. It also considers issues surrounding the distribution of and struggle over work hours and how these vary across a number of factors.
List of contents
Introduction (V. Smith). Part I: Worker Participation in Contemporary Corporate Workplaces A Theorizing Teamwork under Contemporary Capitalism. (S. P. Vallas). Organizational Narratives and the Construction of Resistance: Union Organizing at a 'Progressive' Company. (J. L. Carreiro). The Effect of Participative Work Systems on Employee Earnings. (M. J. Handel). Gendered Contradictions: Managers and Women Workers in Self-Managed Teams. (N. P. Videla). You Get Paid for That? Job and Establishment Level Variations in the Use of Incentive Compensation. (J. Reynolds). Selective Participation: Controlling Workers' Input at General Motors. (J. S. Rothstein). Part II: Recent Trends in Cooperatives Democracy at Work Within the Market: Reconsidering the Potential. (George Cheney). Workplace Democracy Comes of Age: Economic Stability, Growth, and Workforce Diversity. (J. S. M. Meyers). Can Collectivist-Democracy Bring Gender Equality? The Efforts at Twin Oaks. (J. Rothschild and A. Tomchin). Demographic and Environmental Influences on the Diffusion of Change Among the Israeli Kibbutzim, 1990-2001. (R. Russell, R. Hanneman, and S. Getz). Cooperative Entrepreneurialism: Reconciling Democratic Values with Business Demands at a Worker-Owned Firm. (J. Schoening). Part III: Mediating Worker Participation: The Labor Movement and the State. Opportunities and Challenges Facing New Workforce Institutions: A Close-up Analysis of an Alternative Staffing Service. (E. B. Neuwirth). The Spirit of Outsourcing: Corporate and State Regulation of Labor under the H-1B Visa and TANF Policies in the U.S. (F. Ridzi and P. Banerjee). Finding Jobs and Building Careers: Reproducing Inequality in State-Sponsored Job Search Organizations. (V. Smith, Heather K. Flynn, and J. Isler).
Summary
Offers research on the character and implications of workplace participation. This book examines various outcomes, causes, and consequences related to participation programs and worker democracy. It also considers issues surrounding the distribution of and struggle over work hours and how these vary across a number of factors.
