Alternative Work Organizations [electronic resource] /
Atzeni, M.editor.
Current and historical examples in the labour movement worldwide have helped to debunk the myth that workers cannot run production. This volume uses geographically and historically diverse examples to analyse the challenges and questions that alternative forms of work present to those involved.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Notes on Contributors; 1 An Introduction to Theoretical Issues; 2 Factory Occupation, Workers' Cooperatives and Alternative Production: Lessons from Britain in the 1970s; 3 Going Underground: Workers' Ownership and Control at Tower Colliery; 4 Workers' Participation in a Globalized Market: Reflections on and from Mondragon; 5 Democracy and Solidarity: A Study of Venezuelan Cooperatives; 6 From Managed Employees to Self-Managed Workers: The Transformations of Labour at Argentina's Worker-Recuperated Enterprises
7 Institutional Analysis and Collective Mobilization in a Comparative Assessment of Two Cooperatives in India8 Self-Help Groups in Nairobi: Welfare Strategies or Alternative Work Organizations?; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Current and historical examples in the labour movement worldwide have helped to debunk the myth that workers cannot run production. This volume uses geographically and historically diverse examples to analyse the challenges and questions that alternative forms of work present to those involved.
Personnel management.
Political economy.
Labor economics.
Human Resource Management.
International Political Economy.
Labor Economics.