1. Introduction
2. Workers’ Participation – Comparative Historical Perspectives from the Nineteenth Century to the End of the Cold War
3. Workers’ Participation at the Plant Level in a Comparative Perspective
4. Workers’ Participation at Plant Level: Conflicts, Institutionalization Processes and Roles of Social Movements
5. Fabians, guild socialists and ‘democracies of producers’: participation and self-government in the social theories of the Webbs and their successors
6. Gustav Schmoller – A Socialist of the Chair
7. Works Councils as Crucial Social Institutions of Labor Regulation and Participation. Friedrich Fürstenberg’s Concept of Works Councils as ‘Boundary Spanning Institutions’
8. Workers’ Participation – Concepts and Evidence
9. Worker’s Participation in Yugoslavia
10. Participation and Nationalization: the case of British coal from the 1940s to the 1980s
11. Mondragon: Cooperatives in Global Capitalism
12. Workers’ Participation and Transnational Social Movement Interventions at the Shop Floor. The Urgent Appeal System of the Clean Clothes Campaign
13. Workers’ Participation in Australian Workplaces: Past Legacies and Current Practices
14. Workers’ Participation at the Shop Floor Level and Trade Unions in Brazil: economic crisis and new strategies of political action.-15. Emergence of Shop Floor Industrial Relations in China
16. Workers’ participation in Czechia and Slovakia
17. Workers’ Participation at Plant Level - France
18. Workers’ participation at the plant level in Germany – combining industrial democracy and economic innovation?
19. Workers’ Participation at the Plant Level in India
20. Workers’ Participation in Indonesia
21. Workers’ Participation at Plant Level: The Case of Italy
22. The Rise and Fall of Labor-Management Consultations (Roshi Kyogisei) in Japan
23. Labor-Management Council in Korea: A Look at the Past, Contemporary Trends and Challenges for the Future
24. Employee Participation at the Plant Level in Mexico: Features and Possibilities
25. Workers’ Participation in Management at Plant Level in Nigeria
26. Russia
27. Workers’ Participation in Spain
28. Workers’ Participation at Plant Level: the South African Case
29. Workplace participation in Britain, past, present and future: Academic social science reflections on 40 years of Industrial Relations change and continuity
30. Workers’ and Union Participation at U.S. Workplaces
31. Conclusion: Workers’ Participation at the Plant Level – Lessons from History, International Comparison, Future Tendencies.