Workers' Participation in the United States
Catholic Social Teaching and Democratic Theory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9255735 |
|---|---|
| Authors | S J Philip J Chmielewski (Loyola University Chicago, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 487-508 |
| Publication date | 1997-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Review of Social Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-6764 • E-ISSN: 1470-1162 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00346769700000019 |
| OpenAlex | W2162159978 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 25 |
Workers' participation has stirred renewed interest because of recent economic and political transformation. The article presents workplace participation as key in maintaining democratic values. The tenth anniversary of Economic Justice for Allprovides the occasion to reexamine its social ethical arguments for workplace participation. The weight of those arguments is assessed in light of: their wide, antecedent background in theory and practice manifested in both the U.S. and Germany, the modern effectiveness of works' councils, and the extension of the ethical arguments in more recent Catholic social teaching. The article examines the theological and philosophical principles of Economic Justice for Allas they bear on economic participation. Central to these arguments is the fostering of free personal activity within a diverse, institutionally plural society. Toward society's common good, economic participation directs productive and service activites. The traditional category of subsidiarity offers a channel along which contemporary democratic analysis can invigorate the social teaching tradition, namely, in highlighting the functions of communication, information transfer, and education within cooperative activity. Such cooperation addresses the gap in structures of representation as well as the ethical requirement of secured expression. Workers' participation effectively represents and sustains democratic culture
Democracy · Democratic Theory · Political science · Politics · Social science · Social theory · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Public Administration · Religion and Society Interactions
Civic Education and Social Diversity
Christian Trade Unions in the Weimar Republic, 1918-1933
Christian Labor and the Politics of Frustration in Imperial Germany
The Political Economy of Participatory Economics
Democracy and Its Critics
Christian Labor and the Politics of Frustration in Imperial Germany
Democratic Character and Community
Employee Representation
Shop Committees
The Relevance for Social Economics of Alisdair Maclntyre's Conception of a Practice
The Moral Foundations of Community
Rethinking democracy
Hannah Arendt's Argument for Council Democracy
II. Beyond Shared Understandings
Three Ways to be a Democrat
Industrial Democracy in America
The Bishops' Program of Social Reconstruction
Understanding Employee Ownership
Bettering Our Condition
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2025 (24) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |