Economic democracy
SELF-MANAGEMENT & INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY Read: Krahn, Lowe and Hughes, Work, Industry and Canadian Society, 6th edition: Chapter 6 – pp 323-337 (that’s 13 pages – the last quarter of the chapter)
Other useful sources:
Industrial democracy – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Economic democracy – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Institute for Economic Democracy (IED)
Assistance in establishing workplace cooperatives
International Cooperative Alliance
Mondragon Corporacion Cooperativa, Spain
Answer ONE of the following questions.
In our search for jobs that offer good income security and a better quality of life, industrial democracy offers workers more participation and control over their workplace, but not as much as they would get from economic democracy or worker’s ownership. Describe these two alternatives. Which would you prefer?
Critically discuss the following statement: “Producer cooperatives have been successful in places like Mondragon, Spain, and in some isolated small Canadian communities, but they are irrelevant for modern, urban Canada.”
Workplaces are organized differently, workers are managed differently and industrial relations have different rules in some European countries. Can we learn anything from these societies that would lead to higher productivity and less conflict in North American workplaces.
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Industrial democracy offers workers active participation and control over the workplace when they search for jobs that offer good income security. However, workers do not get a fair chance of participation as compared to what they would get from worker ownership and economic democracy………………………………..
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