The Palgrave Handbook of Workers’ Participation at Plant Level

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Workers’ Participation: Comparative Historical Perspectives from the Nineteenth Century to the End of the Cold War

Chapter 3 Workers’ Participation at Plant Level in a Comparative Perspective

Chapter 4 Workers’ Participation at Plant Level: Conflicts, Institutionalization Processes, and Roles of Social Movements

Chapter 5 Gustav Schmoller: A Socialist of the Chair

Chapter 6 Fabians, Guild Socialists and ‘Democracies of Producers’: Participation and Self-Government in the Social Theories of the Webbs and Their Successors

Chapter 7 Works Councils as Crucial Social Institutions of Labor Regulation and Participation. Friedrich Fürstenberg’s Concept of Works Councils as ‘Boundary Spanning Institutions’

Chapter 8 Workers’ Participation: Concepts and Evidence

Chapter 9 Workers’ Participation in Yugoslavia

Chapter 10 Participation and Nationalization: The Case of British Coal from the 1940s to the 1980s

Chapter 11 Mondragon: Cooperatives in Global Capitalism

Chapter 12 Workers’ Participation and Transnational Social Movement Interventions at the Shop Floor: The Urgent Appeal System of the Clean Clothes Campaign

Chapter 13 Workers’ Participation in Australian Workplaces: Past Legacies and Current Practices

Chapter 14 Workers’ Participation at the Shop Floor Level and Trade Unions in Brazil: Economic Crisis and New Strategies of Political Action

Chapter 15 Emergence of Shop-Floor Industrial Relations in China

Chapter 16 Workers’ Participation in Czechia and Slovakia

Chapter 17 Workers’ Participation at Plant Level: France

Chapter 18 Workers’ Participation at Plant Level in Germany: Combining Industrial Democracy and Economic Innovation?

Chapter 19 Workers’ Participation at Plant Level in India

Chapter 20 Workers’ Participation in Indonesia

Chapter 21 Workers’ Participation at the Plant Level: The Case of Italy

Chapter 22 The Rise and Fall of Labor Management Consultations (Roshi Kyogisei) in Japan

Chapter 23 Labor-Management Council in Korea: A Look at the Past, Contemporary Trends, and Challenges for the Future

Chapter 24 Employee Participation at Plant Level in Mexico: Features and Possibilities

Chapter 25 Workers’ Participation in Management at Plant Level in Nigeria

Chapter 26 Workers’ Participation at Plant Level in Russia

Chapter 27 Workers’ Participation in Spain

Chapter 28 Workers’ Participation at Plant Level: The South African Case

Chapter 29 Workplace Participation in Britain, Past, Present, and Future: Academic Social Science Reflections on 40 Years of Industrial Relations Change and Continuity

Chapter 30 Workers’ and Union Participation at US Workplaces

Chapter 31 Workers’ Participation at Plant Level: Lessons from History, International Comparison, and Future Tendencies