Joan S. M. Meyers

Working Democracies

Managing Inequality in Worker Cooperatives

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"This book is a comparative multiyear study of two worker-owned cooperative firms in California with similar founding histories and contemporary demographics, but different internal earnings, occupation, and autonomy inequalities. It assesses the role of organizational structure and organizational identity in the inequalities examined."--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 163mm x 338mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 654g
• ISBN-13: 9781501763687
• ISBN-10: 1501763687
• Artikelnr.: 74172445

Autorenporträt

Joan S. M. Meyers is Assistant Professor of Sociology at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Worker Cooperatives: What Workers Want
2. "By Deed Instead of by Argument": Worker Ownership in the United States
3. Metamorphoses: Worker Cooperatives in the Golden Valley
4. People's Daily Bread Bakery: Worker Ownership, Working-Class Empowerment
5. One World Natural Grocery: Managing without Managers
6. Managerial and Participatory Bureaucracies: Varieties of Inequality
Regimes
7. Worker Identities: Making Inequality Regimes Meaningful
8. Bureaucracies, Democracies, and Economies: A Future of Work