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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.

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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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    Publisher: Cambridge University Press
    Publication Date: 6/30/1989 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780521379427, 978-0521379427
    ISBN10: 0521379423
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    Employee-ownership and co-operatives

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    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.

    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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