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Democracy as 'Organizational Divorce' and How the Postmodern Democracy is Stifled by Unity and Majority

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  • Ann Westenholz

    (Copenhagen Business School)

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Workplace democracy is brought up for discussion by the modern project and the postmodern condition. The modern project is represented by three fictitious eye-witnesses, who all seem to have succumbed to a modern repressive tolerance. Only one 'postmodern eye-witness' protests against the description of the democratic condition and challenges the three modernists by emphasizing the necessity of paradoxes and ruptures to acquire liberty. One facet of the liberating dialogue suggested by the postmodernist is to deconstruct the social system through divorce.

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  • Ann Westenholz, 1991. "Democracy as 'Organizational Divorce' and How the Postmodern Democracy is Stifled by Unity and Majority," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 12(2), pages 173-186, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ecoind:v:12:y:1991:i:2:p:173-186
    DOI: 10.1177/0143831X91122003
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    1. Edward S. Greenberg, 1983. "Context and Cooperation: Systematic Variation in the Political Effects of Workplace Democracy," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 4(2), pages 191-223, May.
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    1. Ann Westenholz, 1999. "From a Logic Perspective to a Paradox Perspective in the Analysis of an EmployeeOwned Company," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 20(4), pages 503-534, November.

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