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    Is There a Moral Right to Workplace Democracy?, in Social Theory and Practice » Read Now

    by Robert Mayer. 26 pgs.

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    ...Is There a Moral Right to Workplace Democracy? by Robert Mayer...have lauded an alternative: workplace democracy. In this alternative, decision-making...enterprise. Often...
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    Unavoidable Inequalities: Some Implications for Participatory Democratic Theory, in Social Theory and Practice » Read Now

    by Karen Wendling. 19 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
    ...writers disagree, however. In Workplace Democracy: An Inquiry into Employee...20.) See Daniel Zwerdling, Workplace Democracy: A Guide to Workplace Ownership...198). (25.)...
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    Empowerment and Democracy in the Workplace: Applying Adult Education Theory and Practice for Cultivating Empowerment » Read Now

    by John R. Dew. 202 pgs.

    Collections: Education, Entire Library
    Adult Education contradicts the theorists and practitioners who claim that empowering organizations can only be created when those at the top decide to share power. The emancipating educational processes are the tools of those who work within systems whether the issue is literacy, civil rights or...
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    Participatory and Workplace Democracy: A Theoretical Development in Critique of Liberalism » Read Now

    by Ronald M. Mason. 252 pgs.

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    ...Participatory and Workplace Democracy A THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENT...Ronald M. Participatory and workplace democracy. Bibliography: p. Includes...7Participatory and Workplace...
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    Managing Modern Capitalism: Industrial Renewal and Workplace Democracy in the United States and Western Europe » Read Now

    by M. Donald Hancock, John Logue, Bernt Schiller. 359 pgs.

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    The development of the welfare state has been accompanied by greater freedoms being granted to workers in industrialized capitalist countries. The themes of this volume concern how governments, trade unions, and workers have acted to promote economic growth and economic accountability with active...
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    Democracy in Capitalist Times: Ideals, Limits, and Struggles ("Workplace Democracy" begins on p. 58) » Read Now

    by John S. Dryzek. 182 pgs.

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    Democracy is under threat from a variety of forces originating in the transnational capitalist economy. Dryzek outlines these forces, considers how democracy might be defended against them, and explores the prospects for the democratic impulse.
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    In Search of New Organizational Paradigms (Chap. 7 "Implementation of Participatory Management, Strategies of Participation") » Read Now

    by Alexander J. Matejko. 353 pgs.

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    Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Organizations Challenged by Leisure "Rational" Versus "Natural" Model Facing Social Conflicts in Organizations Utopia or a Historical Necessity? Toward a Participatory Model Dialectics of Organizations Implementation of Participatory Management Index
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    Workers' Participative Schemes: The Experience of Capitalist and Plan-Based Societies ("The Role of the Unions in the Workplace Democracy " p. 178) » Read Now

    by Helen A. Tsiganou. 258 pgs.

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    Tsiganou explores the enormous diversity of worker participative schemes across national contexts. Using a historical comparative approach, schemes are examined in developed countries--the U.S.A., Japan, Sweden, Norway, England, Germany, and France; and centrally planned less developed socialist...
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    Open Institutions: The Hope for Democracy ("A Democratic Workplace?" begins on p. 45) » Read Now

    by John W. Murphy, Dennis L. Peck. 208 pgs.

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    As Murphy and Peck and the analysts brought together for this collection point out, self-government or democracy does not occur in a vacuum. Democracy will occur only when personal autonomy, critical thought, and the desire for self-government are encouraged by social institutions. In this...
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    How Do We Tell the Workers? The Socioeconomic Foundations of Work and Vocational Education (Chap. 4 "Good Work, Bad Work, and the Debate over Ethical Labor") » Read Now

    by Joe L. Kincheloe. 450 pgs.

    Collections: Education, Entire Library
    This foundational text makes use of advances in cognition & social theory to demonstrate how & why schools & teachers must reorient traditional approaches to vocational education. The book serves as a main text or as supplementary reading in teacher training courses & will be a valuable sourcebook...
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    Democracy and Efficiency in the Economic Enterprise (Chap. 4 "Is the Demand for Workplace Democracy Redundant in a Liberal Economy?") » Read Now

    by Ugo Pagano, Robert Rowthorn. 338 pgs.

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    The collapse of central planning was hailed as evidence of the economic and moral superiority of capitalism over any possible alternative. The essays in this book provide a thorough theoretical and empirical critique of this orthodoxy.

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