György Széll & Paul Blyton 
The State, Trade Unions and Self-Management [PDF ebook] 
Issues of Competence and Control

Frontmatter — Preface — Contents — 1. Introduction: The Role of Competence in Participation, Workers’ Control, and Self-Management — Part I: Participation and Co-Determination — Introduction — 2. “Worker Participation” in the United States: A Preliminary Analysis of Quality of Work Life Programs — 3. The Law as a Force for Change — 4. Co-Determination in the Federal Republic of Germany – An Appraisal of a Secular Experience — 5. A Political Bargaining Theory of Co-Determination — Part II. Worker Co-operatives and Labour-Owned Firms — Introduction — 6. The Role of Support Organisations in Developing Worker Co-operatives: A Model for Promoting Economic and Industrial Democracy? — 7. Consulting for Second Order Change — 8. Self-Management in Wales: Trade Union Encouragement of Worker Co-operatives — 9. The Possibilities and Limits of Self-Management in Cameroonian Enterprises: The Case of an Artisanal Co-operative in the Building Trade — Part III. Economic Change, Labour, and the Unions — Introduction — 10. New Work Processes, Unregulated Capitalism and the Future of Labour — 11. Belgian Unionism and Self-Management1 — 12. Trade Unions and the Challenge of Modernisation and Computerisation in France — 13. Technical Change and Informal Participation: The Role of Competence and Control in Administrative Work — Part IV. The State and Self-Management — Introduction — 14. Limited Expertise and Local Autonomy — 15. Organizations and Society: On Power Relationships — 16. The Impact of State Intervention on Workers’ Control: A Case Study of Autogestion in Algeria — Part V. Education and Competence — Introduction — 17. An Inter-Organizational Analysis of Competence — 18. The Prospects of Industrial Democracy in the Context of the Proposed New Educational Policy in India — 19. Cooperation Between Universities and Unions — 20. Conclusion: Competence and Organizational Democracy: Concluding Reflections — List of Contributors — Backmatter