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Managing the Democratization Process in Work Cooperatives

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  • Bengt Sandkull

    (University of Linkoping)

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Recent public interest in employee-owned enterprises does not see them as exemplars of economic and industrial democracy, but more as a special type of partnership that can take over in the wake of the flight of capital. Their democratization is not encouraged, nor is the establishment of work cooperatives with articulated non-economic goals. A county-wide survey of work cooperatives in Lane county, Oregon, demonstrates some of the problems and some of the potentials in managing the democratization process. Their counterculture values tend to keep them in a precarious existence which agrees with the flndings of Joyce Rothschild-Whitt. In some, a learning process can be discovered, which hints at a development that portrays many of the features of the model suggested by Paul Bernstein.

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  • Bengt Sandkull, 1984. "Managing the Democratization Process in Work Cooperatives," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 5(3), pages 359-389, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ecoind:v:5:y:1984:i:3:p:359-389
    DOI: 10.1177/0143831X8453005
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    1. William Foote Whyte & Joseph R. Blasi, 1980. "From Research to Legislation on Employee Ownership," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 1(3), pages 395-415, August.
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    1. Udo Staber, 1989. "Age-dependence and Historical Effects on the Failure Rates of Worker Cooperatives: An Event-history Analysis," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 10(1), pages 59-80, February.
    2. 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.

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