The Cooperative Workplace: Potentials and Dilemmas of Organizational Democracy and Participation.

Abstract

Introduction Part I. Origins and Types of Alternative Organizations: 1. Cooperatives in the late twentieth-century: the democratic impulse and the challenge of oligarchy 2. The organizations studied, the methods used Part II. A Theory of Democratic organization: 3. The collectivist organization: an alternative to bureaucratic models 4. Internal conditions that facilitate collectivist-democratic organizations 5. External conditions that facilitate collectivist-democratic organizations Part III. The Significance of Democratic Organizations: 6. Democracy and individual satisfaction 7. The future of cooperation 8. Overview and conclusions Notes References Index.