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Meyers, Joan.

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Working democracies: Power and inequality in two employee-owned companies.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Working democracies: Power and inequality in two employee-owned companies./
Author:	Meyers, Joan.
Description:	324 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-11, Section: A, page: 4474.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International70-11A.
Subject:	Sociology, Theory and Methods. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3385705
ISBN:	9781109504217

Working democracies: Power and inequality in two employee-owned companies.
Meyers, Joan.

Working democracies: Power and inequality in two employee-owned companies. - 324 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-11, Section: A, page: 4474.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Davis, 2009.

The dissertation adds to the empirical knowledge about current democratic, employee-owned workplaces, and also advances understanding of the social justice possibilities and limits of bureaucracy. It is primarily based on three years of ethnographic research at two large (100+) democratic companies doing business for more than 25 years, both of which transformed from their initial elite homogeneity into ethnoracially diverse and primarily working-class workforces. While both companies initially utilized informal, face-to-face control and were financially unstable, they had both become successful, stable businesses with highly formalized bureaucratic organizational structures. However, while one organization instituted managerial control through the hierarchical and wage-stratified division of labor, the other developed worker control through a dense clustering of decentralized participatory and centralized representative democratic practices. I ask whether, and how, it is possible for workplaces to interrupt social and economic inequality and injustice. I find that minimizations and (re)productions of gender, ethnicity/race, and class inequalities are the outcomes of these different versions of bureaucracy. Further, I find that organizational narratives about workers produced at each company facilitate the bureaucratic practices that block or accentuate organizational inequality regimes.

ISBN: 9781109504217Subjects--Topical Terms:

626625
Sociology, Theory and Methods.

Working democracies: Power and inequality in two employee-owned companies.
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520 $a My study challenges scholarly theories of bureaucracy and participatory democratic power, showing that formal rules, policies, and procedures interact quite differently with managerial hierarchy and decentralized worker control. As seen in these organizations, bureaucracy does not inherently create oligarchy, nor does participatory democracy inherently advantage workers from socially privileged groups. A formal and broadly democratic organizational structure empowers and protects those from socially marginalized groups, while one that is formal and hierarchical augments the social power of those from privileged groups. I argue that it is the type, not the presence, of bureaucracy that affects inequality outcomes. In this period of financial crisis, sustainable jobs with livable wages are priorities for working-class and marginalized communities. Worker-owned and labor-managed businesses are a possible means to this end, but research is needed to understand how this can be broadly achieved. Drawing on state and financial records, interviews, and observation, this multi-method study elaborates the effects of different kinds of industrial democracy in multicultural settings.
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