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Context and Cooperation: Systematic Variation in the Political Effects of Workplace Democracy

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  • Edward S. Greenberg

    (Political Science and the Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, Boulder)

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In this article, an argument is made for greater attention to contextuality in the study of workplace democracy and self-management. The central theme is that general statements about the political effects of such workplace arrangements are untenable; they must, instead, be grounded in historically specific politicaleconomic settings. The various political effects of workplace democratization are then explored across a range of such contexts, identified as unmediated market capitalist societies; mediated market capitalist societies; settings of revolutionary upheaval; and post-revolutionary societies. The article concludes by suggesting that workplace democratization generates objectively reactionary political effects in unmediated market capitalist societies like the United States.

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  • 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.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ecoind:v:4:y:1983:i:2:p:191-223
    DOI: 10.1177/0143831X8342004
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    1. Eliezer Rosenstein, 1977. "Worker Participation in Israel: Experience and Lessons," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 431(1), pages 113-122, May.
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    1. Anthony Jensen, 2011. "Saving companies worth saving: Spain pioneers a sustainable model of democratic corporate governance," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 32(4), pages 697-720, November.
    2. Steven A. Peterson, 1992. "Workplace Politicization and its Political Spillovers: A Research Note," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 13(4), pages 511-524, November.
    3. 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.
    4. Godfrey Baldacchino, 1990. "A War of Position: Ideas on a Strategy for Worker Cooperative Development," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 11(4), pages 463-482, November.
    5. Roger Spear, 1989. "Reviews," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 10(4), pages 564-567, November.
    6. Johannes Kiess & Andre Schmidt, 2025. "The political spillover of workplace democratization: How democratic efficacy at the workplace contributes to countering right-wing extremist attitudes in Germany," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 46(2), pages 469-495, May.

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