Transnational History of Workplace Democracy since the Second World War

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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This edited volume explores the circulation of ideas and practices around workplace democracy throughout Europe, and beyond its borders, from the Second World War to the present day. Its chapters examine the role of different actors in disseminating ideas about workplace democracy, focusing on trade unions, academics, political and governmental actors, and international organisations. In doing so, the authors explore how the circulation of knowledge across countries shaped different actors’ positions. For instance, how did trade unions and other actors’ discourses take academic production into account, and vice versa? How and through which channels did ideas of workplace democracy circulate, including exchanges, study trips, conferences, symposiums, and publications? Which individuals and institutions played the most important role in the circulation of ideas? How did co-determination, self-management, or other ‘models’ influence discussions, proposals, and concrete measures of workplace democracy on both a European and international level? With fifteen chapters addressing these questions, this collection combines insights from historians, political scientists, legal scholars, and philosophers based in Europe, South America, and North America, therefore contributing to a new comparative, transnational, and global history of workplace democracy.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-10-11
Mått:148 x 210 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783032279491

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Aurélie Andry is currently an Alexander von Humboldt experienced researcher in the Institute for Social Movements at the Ruhr University Bochum, in Germany.Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History and Director of the Institute for Social Movements at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. Along with Holger Nehring and Nikolaos Papadogiannis, he edits the book series, Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements.Sophia Friedel is a Research Associate in the Institute for Social Movements at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.Frank Georgi is Professor of Contemporary Social History at Évry Paris-Saclay University, France, and Deputy Dean of the Graduate School Humanities - Heritage Science at Paris-Saclay University.

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1. Participatory Democracy at the Point of Production: 1944-5 and 1968-75, A Symphony in Two Movements; Gerd-Rainer Horn.- 2. German “Mitbestimmung” as the ultimate means to democratize the workplace in Western Europe? ; Sophia Friedel.- 3. French Views on Mitbestimmung from the 1950s to the 1970s; Alexandre Bibert.- 4. Worker participation in contention? How German codetermination shaped EU policy; Sara Lafuente Hernandez.- 5. The Franco-Italian exchanges on self-management between Gorz and the operaists; Céline Marty.- 6. Regionalism, nationalism and self-management: The case of the Corsican trade-unionists of the CFDT and of the STC (1972-1991); Guillaume Genoud.- 7. Transnational Dimensions of Industrial Democracy in 20th century Britain: What did it mean & why did it fail?; Peter Ackers.- 8. Revealing the Role of Ideas in Labour Law’s Development: Interactions between German exiled Trade Unionists and the British Labour Movement; Rebecca Zahn.- 9. Yugoslav Self-Management, the British Left and the Origins of the Alternative Economic Strateg; Vladimir Unkovski and Aurélie Andry.- 10. Yugoslav Workers’ Self-Management and Western European Socialist and Social-Social Democratic Left; Aleksander Miletic.- 11. How practices of economic democracy helped remove the political dominance of the Communist Party (1989) ; Vaclav Rames.- 12. Worker participation in transnational company actions in Europe; Holm-Detlev Köhler.- 13. The ILOs approach to Workplace Democracy ; Charles Lurquin.- 14. Sarajevo Caput Mundi – The Global Dimension of the 1971 “Second Congress of Yugoslav Self-Managers” ; Benedeco Zaccaria.- 15. Dialogues regarding self-management search and reception from a Latin-American labour organisation during the long sixties ; Gabriela Scodeller.- 16. The Italian reception of the Algerian self-management experiment between myth and concrete support (1962-65) ; Nicola Lamri.