Alternative Work Organizations

2012. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-349-31711-0
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 207 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 259 g

Current and historical examples in the labour movement worldwide have helped to debunk the myth that workers cannot run production. This volume uses geographically and historically diverse examples to analyse the challenges and questions that alternative forms of work present to those involved.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Atzeni, M.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Personalwesen, Human Resource Management
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables List of Figures Preface/Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors An Introduction to Theoretical Issues; M.Atzeni Factory Occupation, Worker Cooperatives and Alternative Production: Lessons from Britain in the 1970s; A.Tuckman Going Underground: Worker Ownership and Control at Tower Colliery; R.Smith, L.Arthur, M.S.Cato & T.Keenoy Workers Participation in a Globalized Market, Reflections on and from Mondragon; J.Azkarraga, G.Cheney & A.Udaondo Democracy and Solidarity: A Study of Venezuelan Cooperatives; C.P.Harnecker From Managed Employees to Self-Managed Workers:The Transformations of Labour at Argentina's Worker-Recuperated Enterprises; M.Vieta Institutional Analysis and Collective Mobilisation in a Comparative Assessment of Two Cooperatives in India; A.Hammer Self-help Groups in Nairobi: Welfare Strategies or Alternative Work Organizations?; M.Ghielmi End Notes Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

AINARA UDAONDO ALBERDI Head of LANKI (Institute of Cooperative Research at Mondragon University, Spain) and the Head of the Department of Cooperative Training and Development there

LEN ARTHUR
GEORGE CHENEY Professor of Communication Studies at Kent State University, USA
JOSEBA AZKARRAGA ETXAGIBEL Cooperative member and Professor of Contemporary Social Change and Social Economics at Mondragon University, Spain
MARTINO GHIELMI
ANITA HAMMER Senior Lecturer in Comparative and International Human Resource Management at Leicester Business School, De Montfort University, UK
CAMILA PIÑEIRO HARNECKER Researcher and Professor at the Center for the Study of the Cuban Economy, University of Havana, Cuba
TOM KEENOY Emeritus Professor at the University of Leicester and Honorary Professor at the Cardiff Business School, UK
MOLLY SCOTT Professor of Strategy and Sustainability at Roehampton University, UK
RUSSELL SMITH Economist and the Acting Director of Cardiff Institute for Cooperative Studies [CICS], UK
ALAN TUCKMAN Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University, UK
MARCELO VIETA Research Fellow at York University's Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC), UK