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The Palgrave Handbook of Workers’ Participation at Plant Level

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Editors:
  1. Stefan Berger

    1. Institute for Social Movements and Department of History, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

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  2. Ludger Pries

    1. Department of Social Sciences, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

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  3. Manfred Wannöffel

    1. Department of Social Sciences, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

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  • An historical and comparative examination of plant-level workers' representations and models of social partnership
  • Considers both European and non-European case studies, adding important insight on global trends
  • Suggests future directions for sustainable and long-term innovation and growth in the knowledge era

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Comprising the study, documentation, and comparison of plant-level workers’ participation around the world, this volume meets the challenge of offering a global perspective on workers’ participation, representation, and models of social partnership. Value chains, economic life, inter-cultural exchange and knowledge, as well as the mobility of persons and ideas increasingly cross the borders of nation-states. In the knowledge age, the active participation of workers in organizations is crucially important for sustainable and long-term growth and innovation. This handbook offers lessons from historical, global accounts of workers’ participation at plant level, even as it looks forward to predict forthcoming trends in participation.

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Table of contents (31 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
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  2. Introduction

    • Stefan Berger, Ludger Pries, Manfred Wannöffel
    Pages 1-9

  4. Classic, Theoretical and Historical Perspectives on Workers’ Participation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89
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    2. Gustav Schmoller: A Socialist of the Chair

      • Nils Goldschmidt, Matthias Störring
      Pages 91-111

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

      • Kevin Morgan
      Pages 113-129

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

      • Ludger Pries, Russell D. Lansbury
      Pages 131-147

    5. Workers’ Participation: Concepts and Evidence

      • Thomas Haipeter
      Pages 149-166

    6. Workers’ Participation in Yugoslavia

      • György Széll
      Pages 167-186

    7. Participation and Nationalization: The Case of British Coal from the 1940s to the 1980s

      • Jim Phillips
      Pages 187-204

    8. Mondragon: Cooperatives in Global Capitalism

      • Joseba Azkarraga, George Cheney
      Pages 205-220

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

      • Jeroen Merk, Sabrina Zajak
      Pages 221-240
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute for Social Movements and Department of History, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

    Stefan Berger

  • Department of Social Sciences, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

    Ludger Pries, Manfred Wannöffel

About the editors

Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History and Director of the Institute for Social Movements at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. He is also Executive Chair of the History of the Ruhr Foundation and Honorary Professor at Cardiff University, UK.

Ludger Pries is Professor of Sociology at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.


Manfred Wannöffel is Director of the Office for Cooperation between Ruhr-Universität Bochum and the German Metalworkers’ Union (IG Metall).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Workers’ Participation at Plant Level

  • Editors: Stefan Berger, Ludger Pries, Manfred Wannöffel

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-48192-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-48191-7Published: 22 January 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-69423-5Published: 29 September 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-48192-4Published: 21 January 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVI, 638

  • Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Sociology of Work

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