The State, Trade Unions and Self-Management

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. Introduction: The Role of Competence in Participation, Workers' Control, and Self-Management -- Part I: Participation and Co-Determination -- Introduction -- 2. Worker Participation in the United States: A Preliminary Analysis of Quality of Work Life Programs -- 3. The Law as a Force for Change -- 4. Co-Determination in the Federal Republic of Germany - An Appraisal of a Secular Experience -- 5. A Political Bargaining Theory of Co-Determination -- Part II. Worker Co-operatives and Labour-Owned Firms -- Introduction -- 6. The Role of Support Organisations in Developing Worker Co-operatives: A Model for Promoting Economic and Industrial Democracy? -- 7. Consulting for Second Order Change -- 8. Self-Management in Wales: Trade Union Encouragement of Worker Co-operatives -- 9. The Possibilities and Limits of Self-Management in Cameroonian Enterprises: The Case of an Artisanal Co-operative in the Building Trade -- Part III. Economic Change, Labour, and the Unions -- Introduction -- 10. New Work Processes, Unregulated Capitalism and the Future of Labour -- 11. Belgian Unionism and Self-Management1 -- 12. Trade Unions and the Challenge of Modernisation and Computerisation in France -- 13. Technical Change and Informal Participation: The Role of Competence and Control in Administrative Work -- Part IV. The State and Self-Management -- Introduction -- 14. Limited Expertise and Local Autonomy -- 15. Organizations and Society: On Power Relationships -- 16. The Impact of State Intervention on Workers Control: A Case Study of Autogestion in Algeria -- Part V. Education and Competence -- Introduction -- 17. An Inter-Organizational Analysis of Competence -- 18. The Prospects of Industrial Democracy in the Context of the Proposed New Educational Policy in India -- 19. Cooperation Between Universities and Unions -- 20. Conclusion: Competence and Organizational Democracy: Concluding Reflections -- List of Contributors -- Backmatter

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Die &quote;Historische Kommission zu Berlin&quote; betreibt die Erforschung der Landesgeschichte und der Historischen Landeskunde Berlin-Brandenburgs bzw. Brandenburg-Preuens in Form von wissenschaftlichen Untersuchungen, Vortragen, Tagungen und Veroffentlichungen sowie durch Serviceleistungen. Dabei kooperiert die Kommission auch mit anderen Institutionen und begleitet wissenschaftliche und praktische Vorhaben von allgemeinem offentlichen Interesse. In der Schriftenreihe werden die Ergebnisse der einzelnen wissenschaftlichen Projekte der Kommission veroffentlicht.