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When people go to work, they cease to be citizens. At their desks they are transformed into employees, subordinate to the hierarchy of the workplace. The degree of their sense of voicelessness may vary from employer to employer, but it is real and growing, inflamed by populist propaganda that ridicules democracy as weak and ineffective amid global capitalism. At the same time, corporations continue untouched and even unremarked as a major source of the problem. Relying on 'economic bicameralism' to consider firms as political entities, this book sheds new light on the institutions of industrial relations that have marked the twentieth century, and argues that it is time to recognize that firms are a peculiar institution that must be properly organized in order to unshackle workers' motivation and creativity, and begin nurturing democracy again.

BPB9999 --- Industrial management --- Management --- Corporate governance --- Governance, Corporate --- Directors of corporations --- Autogestion (Employee self-management) --- Codetermination, Worker --- Consultative management --- Economic democracy --- Employee involvement in management --- Employee participation in management --- Employees' representation in management --- Industrial democracy --- Labor participation in management --- Participative management --- Participatory management --- Self-management by employees --- Worker codetermination --- Worker participation in management --- Worker self-management --- Workers' control --- Workers' participation in management --- Workers' self-management --- Industrial relations --- Employee ownership --- Producer cooperatives --- Employee participation --- Democracy --- Employee empowerment --- Corporations --- Legislative bodies --- History --- Political activity --- #SBIB:316.334.2A537 --- #SBIB:316.334.2A540 --- #SBIB:316.334.2A550 --- Organisatiesociologie: morfologie en werking van de overlegorganismen in de onderneming --- Partijen en strategieën in de onderneming: syndicale strategieën: algemeen --- Partijen en strategieën in de onderneming: patronale strategieën: algemeen --- Industrial relations - History - 20th century --- Corporations - Political activity --- Corporate governance. --- Industrial management. --- Social responsibility of business. --- Capitalism --- Social aspects. --- Business --- Corporate accountability --- Corporate responsibility --- Corporate social responsibility --- CSR (Corporate social responsibility) --- Industries --- Social responsibility, Corporate --- Social responsibility of industry --- Business ethics --- Issues management --- Business administration --- Business enterprises --- Business management --- Corporate management --- Industrial administration --- Management, Industrial --- Rationalization of industry --- Scientific management --- Industrial organization --- Social responsibility --- Social aspects