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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.

The Cooperative Workplace

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    A Paperback by Joyce Rothschild, J. Allen Whitt

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      Publisher Cambridge University Press
      Published 6/30/1989 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780521379427
      978-0521379427
      ISBN-10 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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