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Worker participation : current research and future trends /
"Worker Participation: Current Research and Future Trends, Volume 16 of Research in the Sociology of Work", offers cutting edge research on the character and implications of workplace participation. Written by some of the leading scholars in the sociology of workplace transformation and al...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Boston :
Elsevier JAI,
2006.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Research in the sociology of work ;
v. 16. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: Worker Participation: Current Research and Future Trends
- Outcomes Related to Worker Participation in Capitalist Firms
- Participation in Worker-Owned Organizations
- Conditioning Workplace and Labor Force Participation: State and Labor Movement Effects on Workers
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- References
- PART I: WORKER PARTICIPATION IN CONTEMPORARY CORPORATE WORKPLACES
- Theorizing Teamwork under Contemporary Capitalism
- Introduction
- The Theoretical Impasse
- Beyond the Impasse: Some Arguments about the Nature of Workplace Change
- Discussion and Conclusions
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Organizational Narratives and the Construction of Resistance: Union Organizing at a ''Progressive'' Company
- Introduction
- Research Methods
- Whole Foods Market Organizational Narrative
- Narratives about Employment and Community Citizenship
- Origins of the Madison Union Organizing Drive
- Team Member Empowerment, Participation, and Communication
- Improving Whole Foods Market and Maintaining the Values of the Company
- ''Whole Foods Supports the Rights of its Workers to Unionize''
- ''A Workplace Based on Mutual Trust, Respect and Love''
- ''The Best way to Respect the wishes of our Madison Team Members is to Withdraw Recognition from the Union''
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- References
- The Effect of Participative Work Systems on Employee Earnings
- Introduction
- Theory and Research
- Data
- Results
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Appendix
- Gendered Contradictions: Managers and Women Workers in Self-Managed Teams
- Methods
- Management's Role in Self-Managed Teams: Gendering Teams
- Worker's Response: Accommodation and Resistance
- Discussion
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- References
- You Get Paid for that?: Job and Establishment Level Variations in the Use of Incentive Compensation*
- Background
- Theory and Hypotheses
- Data
- Descriptives
- Multivariate Analysis
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Appendix
- Selective Participation: Controlling Workers' Input at General Motors
- Introduction
- Worker Participation and Lean Production
- General Motors' ''Lean'' Global Manufacturing System
- Worker Participation in Silao
- Worker Participation in Janesville
- Conclusion
- References
- PART II: RECENT TRENDS IN COOPERATIVES
- Democracy at Work Within the Market: Reconsidering the Potential
- Introduction
- Meanings and Practices of Democracy
- Cooperativism Vis-à-Vis Political, Social, and Economic Conceptions of Democracy
- The Transformation of the Citizen to the Consumer
- Lessons from the Mondragón Cooperative Experience
- The Decline and Possible Revival of Organized Labor
- Other Forms of Democratic Organizing Today
- Conclusion: Commitments, Obstacles, Capitulation, and Hopes
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Workplace Democracy Comes of Age: Economic Stability, Growth, and Workforce Diversity
- Possibilities and Limits of Worker Ownership: Literatu.