TY  - GEN
AU  - Patmore,Greg
TI  - Worker Voice
SN  - oapen_608307
PY  - 2016///0201
CY  - Liverpool
PB  - Liverpool University Press
KW  - Industrialisation & industrial history
KW  - bicssc
KW  - History
KW  - Australia
KW  - Canada
KW  - Colorado Fuel and Iron
KW  - Germany
KW  - Trade union
KW  - Works council
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30046/1/650051.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30046/1/650051.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30046/1/650051.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/27503
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