Working Democracies : Managing Inequality in Worker Cooperatives /

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In this inside look at worker cooperatives, Joan Meyers challenges long-held views and beliefs. From the outside, worker cooperatives all seem to offer alternatives to bad jobs and unequal treatment by giving workers democratic control and equitable ownership of their workplaces. Some contend, howev...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Meyers, Joan S. M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2022]
Temas:
Equality.
Management > Employee participation.
Producer cooperatives > Management.
Producer cooperatives > California > Case studies.
Labor History.
Political Science & Political History.
Sociology & Social Science.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General.
the economy and working people, ethnoracial social justice, workplace inequality, worker cooperatives in the US, participatory bureaucracy, california cooperatives, employee ownership.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures and Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Worker Cooperatives: What Workers Want
  • 2. "By Deed Instead of by Argument": Worker Ownership in the United States
  • 3. Metamorphoses: Worker Cooperatives in the Golden Valley
  • 4. People's Daily Bread Bakery: Worker Ownership, Working-Class Empowerment
  • 5. One World Natural Grocery: Managing without Managers
  • 6. Managerial and Participatory Bureaucracies: Varieties of Inequality Regimes
  • 7. Worker Identities: Making Inequality Regimes Meaningful
  • 8. Bureaucracies, Democracies, and Economies: A Future of Work
  • Appendix A: A Discussion of Methods
  • Appendix B: Interview Schedule
  • Appendix C: Observation Questions
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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