IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/palchp/978-1-349-05721-4_11.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

A System for Worker Participation and Self-Management in Western Industrialised Economies

In: The Performance of Labour-Managed Firms

Author

Listed:
  • Jaroslav Vanek

Abstract

In many advanced western economies, private and public industries have been in a considerable crisis in recent years. Without any doubt, one of the principal causes for this, if not the dominant one, is the archaic top-down governance of these industries, matched by the countervailing power of the labour unions. This writer is convinced, after many years of study, that full self-management and democracy in the place of work is the only viable and lasting solution of the problem; however, substantiation of that conviction is not my objective here. Rather, it is the following: whether I am right or not, those who may have to face and answer the question whether or not to introduce self-management, cannot do so without having a precise conception of what a transition to self-management would involve, that is, without having a concrete project, with some degree of operational detail. The purpose of this paper is to provide one such concrete project which I consider ‘optimal’ in that it fulfils optimally certain objective economic, institutional and technical requirements emerging from the reality of western economies.

Suggested Citation

  • Jaroslav Vanek, 1982. "A System for Worker Participation and Self-Management in Western Industrialised Economies," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Frank H. Stephen (ed.), The Performance of Labour-Managed Firms, chapter 11, pages 230-248, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-05721-4_11
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-05721-4_11
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-05721-4_11. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.