Context and Cooperation: Systematic Variation in the Political Effects of Workplace Democracy

Edward S. Greenberg
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Edward S. Greenberg: Political Science and the Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, Boulder

Economic and Industrial Democracy, 1983, vol. 4, issue 2, 191-223

Abstract: In this article, an argument is made for greater attention to contextuality in the study of workplace democracy and self-management. The central theme is that general statements about the political effects of such workplace arrangements are untenable; they must, instead, be grounded in historically specific politicaleconomic settings. The various political effects of workplace democratization are then explored across a range of such contexts, identified as unmediated market capitalist societies; mediated market capitalist societies; settings of revolutionary upheaval; and post-revolutionary societies. The article concludes by suggesting that workplace democratization generates objectively reactionary political effects in unmediated market capitalist societies like the United States.

Date: 1983
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