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Workers' self-management in the United States
- Title
- Workers' self-management in the United States / Christopher Eaton Gunn.
- Author
- Gunn, Christopher Eaton
- Publication
- Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 1984
- © 1984
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Details
- Description
- 251 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- Study of workers self management experience in USA - covers theoretics, definition, the distinction from workers control, and facilitating conditions; discusses plant shutdown and enterprise takeover, with their financial management and decision making processes; surveys social change factors, economic implications and social implication; includes case studies. Bibliography, statistical tables.
- Subject
- Industrial management > Employee participation > United States
- Industrial management > Employee participation
- Arbeiterselbstverwaltung
- Arbeiderszelfbestuur
- workers self management
- theory
- definition
- workers control
- plant shutdown
- enterprise takeover
- financial management
- decision making
- social change
- economic implication
- social implication
- case study
- statistical table
- autogestion ouvrière
- théorie
- définition
- contrôle ouvrier
- fermeture d'usine
- reprise d'entreprise
- gestion financière
- prise de décision
- changement social
- conséquences économiques
- conséquences sociales
- étude de cas
- tableau statistique
- autogestión obrera
- teoría
- definición
- control obrero
- cierre de empresa
- absorción de empresa
- dirección financiera
- toma de decisiones
- cambio social
- consecuencias económicas
- consecuencias sociales
- estudio de casos
- cuadros estadísticos
- United States
- USA
- USA
- Etats-Unis
- Estados Unidos
- Genre/Form
- bibliography.
- bibliographie.
- bibliografía.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 235-244.
- Contents
- Part.I. Definition, Theory, and Evidence. 1. Workers' Self-Management -- 2. Defining and Facilitating Conditions -- Part II. Cases and Issues. 3. The Forest Workers' Cooperatives -- 4. The Plywood Manufacturing Cooperatives -- . Worker Takeovers of Established Firsm -- Part II. Lessons and Broader Considerations. 6. Conditions for Self-Management in the Firm and the Economy -- 7. Self-Management, Reform, and Social Change -- 8. Getting Started --- Appendices.
- ISBN
- 0801416442
- 9780801416446
- LCCN
- 83045937
- OCLC
- ocm10432290
- 10432290
- SCSB-604628
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library