The Palgrave Handbook of Workers’ Participation at Plant Level
The Palgrave Handbook of Workers’ Participation at Plant Level

Author: Stefan Berger

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-01-21

Total Pages: 647

ISBN-13: 1137481927

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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.

The Development of the System of Representation in Yugoslavia with Special Reference to the Period Since 1974
The Development of the System of Representation in Yugoslavia with Special Reference to the Period Since 1974

Author: George A. Potts

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 768

ISBN-13:

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This book examines the Yugoslavian attempt to adapt Marx's 'Paris Commune' model of participatory democracy to the context of a one-party nation state, particularly with the representational system put in place between 1974 and 1990. It is the only book to examine in depth the attempted integration of worker self-management in the workplace with political representation at the levels of commune, republic and federation. It includes detailed references to many studies in Yugolslav journals, available only in Serbo-Croatian, on the effectiveness of participation in workplaces and local government. The extensive data provides information on self-management, representation, local governments, the league of Communists and other dimensions of the former Yugoslavia. It also provides a critical but positive assessment of the Yugoslav experiment in participatory democracy at workplace and communal levels that has significance beyond the Yugoslav case.

Managing Healthy Organizations
Managing Healthy Organizations

Author: Mikael Holmqvist

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-10-04

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 1136929851

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This book studies worksite health promotion as a way of managing organizations. It examines the character of corporate health experts’ work, the social contexts of their profession, their striving for influence, the way they try to affect people’s thinking and behaviour, and the organizational ethic and culture that they contribute to construct.

The Division of Labor in Society
The Division of Labor in Society

Author: Émile Durkheim

Publisher: Digireads.com

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781420948561

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mile Durkheim is often referred to as the father of sociology. Along with Karl Marx and Max Weber he was a principal architect of modern social science and whose contribution helped established it as an academic discipline. "The Division of Labor in Society," published in 1893, was his first major contribution to the field and arguably one his most important. In this work Durkheim discusses the construction of social order in modern societies, which he argues arises out of two essential forms of solidarity, mechanical and organic. Durkheim further examines how this social order has changed over time from more primitive societies to advanced industrial ones. Unlike Marx, Durkheim does not argue that class conflict is inherent to the modern Capitalistic society. The division of labor is an essential component to the practice of the modern capitalistic system due to the increased economic efficiency that can arise out of specialization; however Durkheim acknowledges that increased specialization does not serve all interests equally well. This important and foundational work is a must read for all students of sociology and economic philosophy.

Yugoslav Workers’ Selfmanagement
Yugoslav Workers’ Selfmanagement

Author: M.J. Broekmeyer

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9401032874

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This book contains the Proceedings of a Conference held on 7-9 January 1970 in Amsterdam on the problems and perspectives of Yugoslav workers' self management. The Yugoslav writers were selected according to the criteria that they are competent in their field and that they have different viewpoints in their assessment of the system. We hope that the threefold purpose of this book will be attained, namely to provide a clearer insight for the Western reader into the Yugoslav system; secondly to confront Yugoslav society with the ques tions asked and the criticism voiced here with regard to the practice of workers' selfmanagement; and, lastly, to pay a modest tribute to the 20th anniversary of Yugoslav workers' self management. To be sure, the range of subjects treated in Amsterdam might seem to be rather wide, but one should bear in mind thaI this was unavoidable in the first large-scale confrontation of two different social systems outside Yugoslavia. Although the language used in this book may not always correspond with the official standards, we trust that the published texts will be easily readable for the benevolent reader.