Employee Participation at the Workplace
Capitalist Control or Worker Freedom
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2371583 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Linda Markowitz (0000-0002-5222-9259, Department of Sociology, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL 62026, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 89-103 |
| Publication date | 1996-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0896-9205 • E-ISSN: 1569-1632 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/089692059602200205 |
| OpenAlex | W1997961632 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 20 |
Participatory work strategies are praised by some labor advocates while condemned by others. Proponents claim that employee involvement strategies create cooperation between workers and management and that this cooperation benefits both groups. Critics argue that capitalist's goal of profit makes cooperation between managers and workers impossible. Is worker participation, then, a goal for labor advocates to strive towards or an end to avoid? I agree that the nature of capitalism prohibits long-term cooperation between management and labor. However, I argue that both the tools and discourse of participation give workers more legitimacy to question managerial control than traditional Taylorist strategies
Business · Capitalism · Citizen journalism · Economics · Legitimacy · Management · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Management and Organizational Studies
Choosing sides
The new American workplace
Contested terrain
The decline of organized labor in the United States
Democracy in America
Participation and Democratic Theory
Appropriating Workers’ Knowledge
The Mutual Gains Enterprise
The New Unionism
Governing the Workplace
Economic Democracy
Outsourcing and the Search for 'Flexibility
American Unions in Decline
A Critical View of Worker Participation in American Industry
Toward a Theory of Worker Participation
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2025 (23) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |