The Palgrave Handbook of Workers’ Participation at Plant Level

Comprising the study, documentation, and comparison of plant-level workers’ participation around the world, this volume meets the challenge of offering a global perspective on workers’ participation, representation, and models of social partnership. Value chains, economic life, inter-cultural exchan...

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Other Authors: Berger, Stefan (Editor), Pries, Ludger (Editor), Wannöffel, Manfred (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Palgrave Macmillan US 2019, 2019
Edition:1st ed. 2019
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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505 0 |a 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 --  
505 0 |a 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 --  
505 0 |a 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 
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520 |a Comprising the study, documentation, and comparison of plant-level workers’ participation around the world, this volume meets the challenge of offering a global perspective on workers’ participation, representation, and models of social partnership. Value chains, economic life, inter-cultural exchange and knowledge, as well as the mobility of persons and ideas increasingly cross the borders of nation-states. In the knowledge age, the active participation of workers in organizations is crucially important for sustainable and long-term growth and innovation. This handbook offers lessons from historical, global accounts of workers’ participation at plant level, even as it looks forward to predict forthcoming trends in participation