Worker Voice
：Employee Representation in the Workplace in Australia, Canada, Germany, the UK and the US 1914–1939
( Studies in Labour History )
Publication subTitle ：Employee Representation in the Workplace in Australia, Canada, Germany, the UK and the US 1914–1939
Publication series ：Studies in Labour History
Publisher： Liverpool University Press
Publication year： 2016
E-ISBN: 9781781384312
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781781382684
Subject： F1 The World Economic Profiles , Economic History , Economic Geography
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Description
This book informs debates about worker participation in the workplace or worker voice by analysing comparative historical data relating to these ideas during the inter-war period in Australia, Canada, Germany, the UK and the US. The issue is topical because of the contemporary shift to a workplace focus in many countries without a corresponding development of infrastructure at the workplace level, and because of the growing ‘representation gap’ as union membership declines. Some commentators have called for the introduction of works councils to address these issues. Other scholars have gone back and examined the experiences with the non-union Employee Representation Plans (ERPs) in Canada and the US. This book will test these claims through examining and comparing the historical record of previous efforts of five countries during a rich period of experimentation between the Wars. In addition to ERPs, the book expands the debate will by examining union-management co-operation, Whitley works committees and German works councils. The book aims to understand work participation in the workplace or worker voice by examining the inter-war experience in Australia, Canada, Germany, the UK and the US.
- The book takes a comparative historical approach to worker voice
- The book explores a four major ideas relating to worker voice in the inter-war period
- The book informs current debates relating to worker voice by exploring the past
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