ISBN:
9780762312023
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (431 p.)
Parallel Title:
Print version Worker Participation : Current Research and Future Trends
DDC:
306.36
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Addressing the democratic professional environment
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Worker Participation: Current Research and Future Trends; Contents; List of Contributors; Worker Participation: Current Research and Future Trends; Theorizing Teamwork under Contemporary Capitalism; Organizational Narratives and the Construction of Resistance: Union Organizing at a ''Progressive'' Company; The Effect of Participative Work Systems on Employee Earnings; Gendered Contradictions: Managers and Women Workers in Self-Managed Teams; You Get Paid for that?: Job and Establishment Level Variations in the Use of Incentive Compensation*
Description / Table of Contents:
Selective Participation: Controlling Workers' Input at General MotorsDemocracy at Work Within the Market: Reconsidering the Potential; Workplace Democracy Comes of Age: Economic Stability, Growth, and Workforce Diversity; Can Collectivist-Democracy bring Gender Equality? The Efforts at Twin Oaks; Demographic and Environmental Influences on the Diffusion of Changes Among Israeli Kibbutzim, 1990-2001; Cooperative Entrepreneurialism: Reconciling Democratic Values with Business Demands at a Worker-Owned Firm
Description / Table of Contents:
Opportunities and Challenges Facing New Workforce Institutions: A Close-up Analysis of an Alternative Staffing ServiceThe Spirit of Outsourcing: Corporate and State Regulation of Labor under H-1B Visa and TANF Policies in the U.S.; Getting Jobs and Building Careers: Reproducing Inequality in State-Sponsored Job Search Organizations; About the Authors;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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