Worker Voice
Patmore, Greg
Worker Voice - Liverpool Liverpool University Press 20160201
Open Access
This book informs debates about worker participation in the workplace or worker voice by analysing comparative historical data relating to these ideas during the inter-war period in Australia, Canada, Germany, the UK and the US. The issue is topical because of the contemporary shift to a workplace focus in many countries without a corresponding development of infrastructure at the workplace level, and because of the growing ‘representation gap’ as union membership declines. Some commentators have called for the introduction of works councils to address these issues. Other scholars have gone back and examined the experiences with the non-union Employee Representation Plans (ERPs) in Canada and the US. This book will test these claims through examining and comparing the historical record of previous efforts of five countries during a rich period of experimentation between the Wars.
Creative Commons
English
oapen_608307 9781781384312
10.26530/oapen_608307 doi
Industrialisation & industrial history
History Australia Canada Colorado Fuel and Iron Germany Trade union Works council
Worker Voice - Liverpool Liverpool University Press 20160201
Open Access
This book informs debates about worker participation in the workplace or worker voice by analysing comparative historical data relating to these ideas during the inter-war period in Australia, Canada, Germany, the UK and the US. The issue is topical because of the contemporary shift to a workplace focus in many countries without a corresponding development of infrastructure at the workplace level, and because of the growing ‘representation gap’ as union membership declines. Some commentators have called for the introduction of works councils to address these issues. Other scholars have gone back and examined the experiences with the non-union Employee Representation Plans (ERPs) in Canada and the US. This book will test these claims through examining and comparing the historical record of previous efforts of five countries during a rich period of experimentation between the Wars.
Creative Commons
English
oapen_608307 9781781384312
10.26530/oapen_608307 doi
Industrialisation & industrial history
History Australia Canada Colorado Fuel and Iron Germany Trade union Works council