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Can the workers run industry?

Title
Can the workers run industry? [Ken Coates, editor].
Publication
London, Sphere in association with the Institute for Workers' Control, 1968.

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Additional Authors
  • Coates, Ken
  • Institute for Workers' Control.
Description
254 pages; 19 cm
Summary
Compilation of essays on the potential of trade unionism as an instrument of social change in the UK - covers political aspects and social implications of the present economic structure, the capital monopoly system of interest groups, government policy, management attitudes, etc., and stresses the necessity for workers participation in decision making.
Subject
  • Industrial management > Employee participation > Great Britain
  • Management > Employee participation > Great Britain
  • Management > Employee participation
  • Industrial management > Employee participation
  • social change
  • trade union
  • capital
  • decision making
  • economic structure
  • government policy
  • interest group
  • management attitude
  • monopoly
  • political aspect
  • social implication
  • workers participation
  • changement social
  • syndicat
  • aspect politique
  • attitude patronale
  • conséquences sociales
  • groupe d'intérêt
  • monopole
  • participation des travailleurs
  • politique gouvernementale
  • prise de décision
  • structure économique
  • cambio social
  • sindicato
  • actitud de la dirección
  • aspecto político
  • consecuencias sociales
  • estructura económica
  • grupo de intereses
  • monopolio
  • participación de los trabajadores
  • política gubernamental
  • toma de decisiones
  • Great Britain
  • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  • Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande du Nord
  • Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliographical footnotes.
Contents
The limits of the welfare state / Michael Barratt Brown -- The controllers of British industry / Michael Barratt Brown -- Democracy and planning / John Hughes -- The scope and limits of legislation / Ian Mikardo -- Workers' control and the trade unions / Ernie Roberts -- Socialism, democracy and the computer / Stephen Bodington -- The fuel industry / Eric Sherratt -- The National Health Service / Geoffrey Richman -- The motor industry / Bob Harrison -- Nationalised steel / Sheffield Steel Group -- The dockers / Tony Topham -- The aircraft industry / Alan Rooney -- Student power / Terry Lacey -- Participation or control? / Ken Coates and Tony Topham.
ISBN
  • 0722124309
  • 9780722124307
LCCN
70403839
OCLC
  • ocm00014496
  • 14496
  • SCSB-106709
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library