The Democratic Worker Owned Firm

Author : David Ellerman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317484789
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Democratic Worker-Owned Firm (Routledge Revivals) written by David Ellerman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-14 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When this book was first published in 1990, there were massive economic changes in the East and significant economic challenges to the West. This critical analysis of democratic theory discusses the principles and forces that push both socialist and capitalist economies toward a common ground of workplace democratization. This book is a comprehensive approach to the theory and practice of the "Democratic firm" – from philosophical first principles to legal theory and finally to some of the details of financial structure. The argument for economic democracy supports private property, free markets and entrepreneurship for instance, but fundamentally it replaces the employer/employee relationship with democratic membership in the firm. For students, teachers, policy makers and others interested in the application of democracy to the workplace, this book will serve as a manifesto and a standard reference on the topic.

Author : David P. Ellerman
Publisher : Allen & Unwin Australia
ISBN 13 : 9780044457435
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Democratic Worker-owned Firm written by David P. Ellerman and published by Allen & Unwin Australia. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A democratic firm is a company owned and controlled by all the people working in it, just as a democratic government at the city or state level is controlled by all its citizens. This book is about the ideas, structures, and principles involved in the democratic firm and in economic democracy.

Author : Len Krimerman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Workers Decide written by Len Krimerman and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joan S. M. Meyers
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501763695
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Working Democracies written by Joan S. M. Meyers and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this inside look at worker cooperatives, Joan Meyers challenges long-held views and beliefs. From the outside, worker cooperatives all seem to offer alternatives to bad jobs and unequal treatment by giving workers democratic control and equitable ownership of their workplaces. Some contend, however, that such egalitarianism and self-management come at the cost of efficiency and stability, and are impractical in the long run. Working Democracies focuses on two worker cooperatives in business since the 1970s that transformed from small countercultural collectives into thriving multiracial and largely working-class firms. She shows how democratic worker ownership can provide stability and effective business management, but also shows that broad equality is not an inevitable outcome despite the best intentions of cooperative members. Working Democracies explores the interconnections between organizational structure and organizational culture under conditions of worker control, revealing not only the different effects of managerialism and "participatory bureaucracy," but also how each bureaucratic variation is facilitated by how workers are defined by at each cooperative. Both bureaucratic variation and worker meanings are, she shows, are consequential for the reduction or reproduction of class, gender, and ethnoracial inequalities. Offering a behind the scenes comparative look at an often invisible type of workplace, Working Democracies serves as a guidebook for the future of worker cooperatives.

Author : Frank T. Adams
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Putting Democracy to Work written by Frank T. Adams and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adams and Hansen discuss legal requirements, methods of financing worker buyouts, management patterns, and the efforts necessary to educate all those who will be participating. They provide examples of a model business plan, feasibility study, model by-laws, and much more.

Author : Douglas L. Kruse
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226056961
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shared Capitalism at Work written by Douglas L. Kruse and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historical relationship between capital and labor has evolved in the past few decades. One particularly noteworthy development is the rise of shared capitalism, a system in which workers have become partial owners of their firms and thus, in effect, both employees and stockholders. Profit sharing arrangements and gain-sharing bonuses, which tie compensation directly to a firm’s performance, also reflect this new attitude toward labor. Shared Capitalism at Work analyzes the effects of this trend on workers and firms. The contributors focus on four main areas: the fraction of firms that participate in shared capitalism programs in the United States and abroad, the factors that enable these firms to overcome classic free rider and risk problems, the effect of shared capitalism on firm performance, and the impact of shared capitalism on worker well-being. This volume provides essential studies for understanding the increasingly important role of shared capitalism in the modern workplace.

Author : Sune Jansson
Publisher : Gower Publishing Company, Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Labor-owned Firms and Workers' Cooperatives written by Sune Jansson and published by Gower Publishing Company, Limited. This book was released on 1986 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Erik Poutsma
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785609661
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sharing in the Company written by Erik Poutsma and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-12 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 17 of Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor-Managed Firms provides detailed analysis on standard econometric studies to new institutional economics to behavioral economics.

Author : Isabelle Ferreras
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108415946
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Firms as Political Entities written by Isabelle Ferreras and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aimed at political sciences students and teachers, Ferreras presents the new idea of 'economic bicameralism' to redefine firms as political entities.

Author : David Ellerman
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030626768
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neo-Abolitionism written by David Ellerman and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-02-17 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues for the abolition of the employment system in favor of workplace democracy and thus escapes the usual capitalism-versus-socialism binary choice by reframing the basic issue as the employment contract, not private property or a market economy. The author repositions the political and economic debate in the lineage of abolitionism - against the owning of other people - which in its modern version of neo-abolitionism would also abolish the renting, or hiring, employing, or leasing of other people. The overall argument is based on three recovered theories, each one of which is sufficient to yield the neo-abolitionist conclusion. These three rights-based theories are developed throughout the book. The three theories are 1) inalienable rights theory, 2) the natural rights or labor theory of property, and 3) democratic theory as based on a democratic constitution that only delegates governance rights versus a non-democratic constitution that alienates governance rights. The book, therefore, is a must-read for everybody interested in a better understanding of the political economy, workplace democracy, rights-based theories, and the employment system.