Sharing Ownership in the Workplace - Brossura

Russell, Raymond

Brossura

ISBN 10: 087395999X ISBN 13: 9780873959995

Casa editrice: State Univ of New York Pr, 1985

Riassunto

Employee ownership is the fastest growing organizational trend in American business. Instances of workers buying out closing plants, unions granting wage concessions in exchange for an employer's stock, and corporations using employee stock ownership as a defense against takeovers are occurring more frequently. But is the movement toward employee ownership a significant new trend or a repetition of past mistakes?

Sharing Ownership in the Workplace traces the history of employee ownership in the United States and Western Europe to its incipiency in the nineteenth century. The findings are disturbing―labor-owned business tend to revert to conventional organizational structure. This book examines this phenomenon, an understanding of which is crucial for assessing the prospects of the emerging generation of employee-owned firms. It presents three contemporary case studies of businesses that have been employee owned for generations―scavenger firms, taxi cooperatives, and professional group practices―to determine what causes them to fail and what makes for successful labor-controlled operations.

Throughout Russell integrates various ideological perspectives on worker-owned organizations, citing theorists as diverse as Karl Marx, Max Weber, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Louis Kelso, and Peter Drucker. Special attention is paid to the processes that lead to employee ownership, cause it to spread, and either to endure or to degenerate over time.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Raymond Russell is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Riverside.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: State Univ of New York Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1985
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 087395999X
• ISBN 13: 9780873959995
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 267
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile