Description
Comprising the study, documentation, and comparison of plant-level workers’ participation around the world, this volume meets the challenge of offering a global perspective on workers’ participation, representation, and models of social partnership. Value chains, economic life, inter-cultural exchange and knowledge, as well as the mobility of persons and ideas increasingly cross the borders of nation-states. In the knowledge age, the active participation of workers in organizations is crucially important for sustainable and long-term growth and innovation. This handbook offers lessons from historical, global accounts of workers’ participation at plant level, even as it looks forward to predict forthcoming trends in participation. Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History and Director of the Institute for Social Movements at Ruhr-Universitt Bochum, Germany. He is also Executive Chair of the History of the Ruhr Foundation and Honorary Professor at Cardiff University, UK. Ludger Pries is Professor of Sociology at Ruhr-Universitt Bochum, Germany. Manfred Wannffel is Director of the Office for Cooperation between Ruhr-Universitt Bochum and the German Metalworkers’ Union (IG Metall).
