| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 207 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
An introduction to theoretical issues / Maurizio Atzeni -- Factory occupation, worker cooperatives and alternative production : lessons from Britain in the 1970s / Alan Tuckman -- Going underground : worker ownership and control at Tower Colliery / Russell Smith, Len Arthur, Molly Scott Cato and Tom Keenoy -- Workers participation in a globalized market, reflections on and from Mondragon / Joseba Azkarraga, George Cheney, Ainara Udaondo -- Democracy and solidarity : a study of Venezuelan cooperatives / Camila Piñeiro Harnecker -- From managed employees to self-managed workers : the transformations of labour at Argentina's worker-recuperated enterprises / Marcelo Vieta -- Institutional analysis and collective mobilisation in a comparative assessment of two cooperatives in India / Anita Hammer -- Self-help groups in Nairobi : welfare strategies or alternative work organizations? / Martino Ghielmi |
| Summary |
"Current and historical examples in the labour movement worldwide have helped to debunk the myth that workers cannot run production. Workers can take control of factories, reverting many assumptions about property, management, work organisation, wages andchallenge the almost natural character of capitalist work relations. This volume uses geographically and historically diverse examples to analyse the challenges and questions that alternative forms of work present to those involved"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Work environment.
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Management -- Employee participation.
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Organization.
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Personnel & human resources management.
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Industrial relations.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Human Resources & Personnel Management.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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Business and Management.
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Organization
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Management -- Employee participation
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Work environment
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Personnel & human resources management.
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Industrial relations, health & safety.
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Labour economics.
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Business and Management.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Atzeni, Maurizio.
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| ISBN |
9781137029041 |
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1137029048 |
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