The Palgrave Handbook of Workers’ Participation at Plant Level

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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxvi Introduction (Stefan Berger, Ludger Pries, Manfred Wannöffel)....Pages 1-9 Front Matter ....Pages 11-11 Workers’ Participation: Comparative Historical Perspectives from the Nineteenth Century to the End of the Cold War (Stefan Berger)....Pages 13-35 Workers’ Participation at Plant Level in a Comparative Perspective (Ludger Pries)....Pages 37-62 Workers’ Participation at Plant Level: Conflicts, Institutionalization Processes, and Roles of Social Movements (Manfred Wannöffel)....Pages 63-87 Front Matter ....Pages 89-89 Gustav Schmoller: A Socialist of the Chair (Nils Goldschmidt, Matthias Störring)....Pages 91-111 Fabians, Guild Socialists and ‘Democracies of Producers’: Participation and Self-Government in the Social Theories of the Webbs and Their Successors (Kevin Morgan)....Pages 113-129 Works Councils as Crucial Social Institutions of Labor Regulation and Participation. Friedrich Fürstenberg’s Concept of Works Councils as ‘Boundary Spanning Institutions’ (Ludger Pries, Russell D. Lansbury)....Pages 131-147 Workers’ Participation: Concepts and Evidence (Thomas Haipeter)....Pages 149-166 Workers’ Participation in Yugoslavia (György Széll)....Pages 167-186 Participation and Nationalization: The Case of British Coal from the 1940s to the 1980s (Jim Phillips)....Pages 187-204 Mondragon: Cooperatives in Global Capitalism (Joseba Azkarraga, George Cheney)....Pages 205-220 Workers’ Participation and Transnational Social Movement Interventions at the Shop Floor: The Urgent Appeal System of the Clean Clothes Campaign (Jeroen Merk, Sabrina Zajak)....Pages 221-240 Front Matter ....Pages 241-241 Workers’ Participation in Australian Workplaces: Past Legacies and Current Practices (Russell D. Lansbury)....Pages 243-261 Workers’ Participation at the Shop Floor Level and Trade Unions in Brazil: Economic Crisis and New Strategies of Political Action (José Ricardo Ramalho)....Pages 263-281 Emergence of Shop-Floor Industrial Relations in China (Bill Taylor)....Pages 283-300 Workers’ Participation in Czechia and Slovakia (Jan Drahokoupil, Marta Kahancová)....Pages 301-322 Workers’ Participation at Plant Level: France (Udo Rehfeldt)....Pages 323-342 Workers’ Participation at Plant Level in Germany: Combining Industrial Democracy and Economic Innovation? (Ludger Pries)....Pages 343-362 Workers’ Participation at Plant Level in India (Pravin Sinha)....Pages 363-376 Workers’ Participation in Indonesia (Michele Ford, George Martin Sirait)....Pages 377-392 Workers’ Participation at the Plant Level: The Case of Italy (Volker Telljohann)....Pages 393-418 The Rise and Fall of Labor Management Consultations (Roshi Kyogisei) in Japan (Albrecht Rothacher)....Pages 419-436 Labor-Management Council in Korea: A Look at the Past, Contemporary Trends, and Challenges for the Future (Jungwoo Kim, Minsu Song)....Pages 437-458 Employee Participation at Plant Level in Mexico: Features and Possibilities (Graciela Bensusán, Willebaldo Gómez Zuppa)....Pages 459-478 Workers’ Participation in Management at Plant Level in Nigeria (Funmi Adewumi)....Pages 479-490 Workers’ Participation at Plant Level in Russia (Elena Gerasimova)....Pages 491-514 Workers’ Participation in Spain (Holm-Detlev Köhler)....Pages 515-536 Workers’ Participation at Plant Level: The South African Case (Edward Webster, Themba Masondo, Christine Bischoff)....Pages 537-555 Workplace Participation in Britain, Past, Present, and Future: Academic Social Science Reflections on 40 Years of Industrial Relations Change and Continuity (Peter Ackers)....Pages 557-574 Workers’ and Union Participation at US Workplaces (Harry C. Katz, Arthur Wheaton)....Pages 575-594 Front Matter ....Pages 595-595 Workers’ Participation at Plant Level: Lessons from History, International Comparison, and Future Tendencies (Stefan Berger, Ludger Pries, Manfred Wannöffel)....Pages 597-619 Back Matter ....Pages 621-638