Worker Participation: Current Research and Future Trends

Worker Participation: Current Research and Future Trends

Worker's participation: Current Research and Future Trends, volume 16 of research in the sociology of work, offers cutting-edge research on the character and implications of workplace participation. Written by some of the leading scholars in the sociology of workplace transformation and alternative organizations, the chapters here examine various outcomes, causes, and consequences related to participation programs and worker democracy today. Topics include ways in which participations schemes are socially constructed and negated; the meanings that workers attach to opportunities for involvement in the workplace; practice, participation, and consent in alternative organizations such as cooperatives and collectives; the theoretical treatments that call for new ways of thinking about workplace participation. Methodologically pluralist and concerned less with specific productivity effect of worker participation, this volume highlights the socio-structural, social-constructionist, and meta-theoretical dimensions of the workers participation and democratic organizations in the twenty-first century.

Vicki Smith

JAI, Elsevier

2006

PDF

English

Paper