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Title

Work and power : the liberation of work and the control of political power / edited by Tom R. Burns, Lars Erik Karlsson, Veljko Rus.

Publication

London ; Beverly Hills, Calif. : Sage Publications, c1979.

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Additional Authors

• Rus, Veljko.
• Burns, Tom, 1913-2001
• Karlsson, Lars Erik, 1941-
• Burns, Tom R.

Description

391 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

Monographic compilation of essays on workers participation and workers' political power - gives historical background, and discusses the impact and limitations of workers self management and participation in capitalist countries and in Yugoslavia. Diagram, references and statistical tables.

Series Statement

Sage studies in international sociology ; 18

Uniform Title

Sage studies in international sociology ; 18.

Subject

• Industrial sociology
• Industrial relations
• Management > Employee participation
• Working class > Political activity

Genre/Form

• reference.
• référence bibliographique.
• referencia.

Note

• Papers presented or developed at an international conference held in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia in 1977.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I. Historical and background studies -- 1. Efficiency, satisfaction and democracy in work: ideas of industrial relations in Post-War Sweden / Edmund Dahlström -- 2. Paths of transition to workers' self-management in the developed capitalist countries / Branko Horvat -- 3. Self-management, market, and political institutions in conflict: Yogoslav development patterns and dialectics / Tom Baumgartner, Tom R. Burns and Dusko Sekulić -- II. Theoretical studies -- 4. Hierarchy and democratic authority / Peter Abell -- 5. Work, politics, and social structuring under capitalism: impact and limitations of industrial democracy reforms under capitalist relations of productions and social reproduction / Tom Baumgartner, Tom R. Burns and Philippe DeVille -- 6. Limited effects of worker's participation and political counter-power / Veljko Rus -- 7. Systems of domination, accommodation, and industrial democracy / Eric Batstone -- III. Strategy and critique of strategy -- 8. On the nature of capitalist-initiated innovations in the workplace / Gerry Hunnius -- 9. Self-management--strategy for autonomy or integration? / Finn Valentin -- 10. Liberation of work and the role of social research / Bjørn Gustavsen -- 11. The political economy of third sector enterprises / Alasdair Clayre -- 12. Self-management and cooperation as the vehicle of the new world economic order / Jaroslav Vanek.

ISBN

• 0803998465 :
• 0803998473 (pbk.) :
• 0803998477 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^^78063143^

OCLC

• 5172398
• SCSB-10712815

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Harvard Library