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	Anarchism
		Furthermore, anarcho-syndicalists believe that workers' organizations — the organizations which struggle against the wage system and which, in anarcho-syndicalist theory, will eventually form the basis of a new society – should be self-managing.
		Workers' solidarity means that anarcho-syndicalists believe all workers, no matter what their race, gender, or ethnic group are in a similar situation vis-a-vis their bosses.
		The Industrial Workers of the World, a once-powerful, still active, and again growing labor union, is considered a leading organ of the anarcho-syndicalist philosophy in the United States.
	hallencyclopedia.com /Anarchism (7842 words)

	Preventing Violence in the Workplace - Prevention, National Mental Health Information Center
		Training for workers vulnerable to verbal or physical assault-such as those in service agencies who meet the public, first-response workers including the police, firefighters, emergency aid technicians, and receptionists who act as gatekeepers-reassures them that management is aware of their situation.
		Workers who are without membership in an organized religion, divorced or never married, live far from their families and have no close-knit group of friends, may be particularly vulnerable to persisting emotional and social distress.
		Workers Eeed to be made aware of feelings of isolation of the worker who is identified as the sole representative of a particular race, ethnicity, gender, or age.
	www.mentalhealth.samhsa.gov /publications/allpubs/CMH94-5002/page4.asp (2410 words)

	Combining Worker and Consumer Ownership:
		In the United States, full-fledged worker cooperatives face a number of obstacles including a lack of worker and management training, a lack of financial skills, and, in particular, limited access to capital for the development and expansion of the business.
		Thus, over the last decade, consumer coops have been faced with the prospect of reconciling their democratic aspirations with the inclusion of a management structure that likely entails traditional elements of hierarchy, command and control, and the careerist ambitions of individual managers.
		Their innovative concept was to combine worker and consumer cooperation to create a hybrid form that might offer the benefits of each while avoiding the pitfalls of both.
	home.att.net /~pamichae/worker-consumer_cooperation.htm (2757 words)

	Self-management
		Where community is lacking, the opportunities for self-management are slim, as in the case of workers who work individually rather than collectively, in highly competitive situations, in neighbourhoods with a high turnover of residents, or among the home-bound.
		Worker self-management, by contrast, implies a dissolving of the management-worker distinction.
		Worker participation is sometimes promoted by management, who use it to consult with workers about decisions, thereby reducing discontent and gaining some useful ideas while still maintaining ultimate control over decisions.
	www.uow.edu.au /arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/90uw/uw05.html (8744 words)

	Worker self-management in historical perspective
		Argentina's growing WSM movement, particularly in the occupied factories and in the enterprises organized by the unemployed workers' movements the MTD have opened a wide-ranging debate on the structure, trajectory and politics of the movement.
		Some of the leaders of the unemployed workers' movement not only understand the limits of islands of WSM in a capitalist market, but also project the need for actively participating in the general political struggle at the national level.
		The limitations of Yugoslav WSM was that it was always limited by the fact that the State remained in the hands of the Communist Party which limited the extent of WSM to the local or sectoral level, and thus created a dual system of power between the bureaucratic state and the factory-based WSM movement.
	www.rebelion.org /petras/english/worker021002.htm (2645 words)

	CLAS:: Academic Programs
		A final significant challenge facing this movement and the individual firms, as expressed by the workers themselves, is the likelihood of exhaustion on the part of those workers who are constantly struggling to continue taking on the responsibility of self-management in the face of the aforementioned challenges.
		Since taking over the firms, workers expressed a greater sense of freedom in terms of their workplace activities, coupling it with greater levels of responsibility in the absence of management and ownership, and thereby increasing their sense of dignity.
		While the workers in the three cases studied from this movement criticize the neoliberal system and political institutions, they also seek to create new spaces of participation, solidarity, and recognition with other organizations that allow for discourses outside of traditional interest mediating structures.
	www.georgetown.edu /sfs/programs/clas/mcdowell.html (1540 words)

	Blue Shield
		The concession from management would have to be the distribution of recovered losses in the form of wages and benefits to workers, and possibly, worker representation on Blue Shield's board of directors.
		Management preoccupation with the "language barrier" translates into the "race barrier" and "communication problems" mean "race problems." If racism were not involved, corporations might deal with cultural diversity by hiring more minority managers and supervisors and increasing language capabilities throughout their organizations, "covering all the bases" as it were.
		A good number of these workers are Asian and Black women and from Blue Shield's point of view, they have a "communication problem," either because English is not their native language or because they speak a different dialect.
	www.processedworld.com /Issues/issue08/08blueshld.htm (2038 words)

	Worker's self-management
		In many cases management was only rubber stamping decisions taken by the committees and was answerable to workers' mass meetings.
		By August 19th 1917 the government estimated that 5,531 railway workers were involved in the factory committee movement costing the State 11 million rubbles.
		Like most revolutions the Russian one is best envisioned as a rolling process with workers gradually taking up more and more control at the expense of their bosses.
	www.spunk.org /library/pubs/ws/ws50/sp001679/factory.html (901 words)

	Independent Media Center www.indymedia.org ((( i )))
		The workers consider that they are in a situation of war, where the workers must take on a clear offensive to defend their factories, with marches, political actions, solidarity and self-defense.
		Under this principle the workers are using to form self-defense teams to protect the workers and their families.
		The workers of Zanon factory, in Argentina, and other social organizations mobilized in front of the central courthouse on April 21 to defend their factory against mounting attacks.
	www.indymedia.org /en/2005/04/114907.shtml (1456 words)

	The New York Review of Books: WORKER SELF-MANAGEMENT
		In a broader vision, workers' self-management is the demand of working people (both blue and white-collar) to control their lives, not just to be better integrated into a system which makes useless goods for somebody else's profit.
		When Dahl says workers' self-management, he does not mean the forms of socialist democracy historically associated with the term.
		In the Scanlon Plan of workers' participation, for example, or in the range of studies cited by Paul Blumberg in Industrial Democracy, the critical variables turn out to be the ability of workers to discuss new ideas in face-to-face groups, and the extent to which good ideas are implemented by the firm in question.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/10531 (1449 words)

	Self-Management of Irrigation Systems, a Typology: The Mexican Case
		And we also want to point out that successful cases of the bureaucratic management model where the locus of authority remains in the irrigation community seem to be found only to the United States and a few other countries, where the size of landholdings is much greater than in the rest of the world4.
		He adds that the workers and employees of a State-managed enterprise are less free compared to private capital firms, because all struggles against the State bureaucracy are futile, as —in principle— there are no other interested parties in confronting it, as it is possible in the case of the private economy (Weber 1969, pp.
		However, in the current typology of management types —as we have shown— attention is given only to the locus of authority and not the organizational characteristics.
	www.geocities.com /jacinta_palerm/noruega.html (7241 words)

	ZNet Commentary: BAUEN Hotel: Struggle, culture and work
		The 150 workers have finally lifted up their heads and defiantly looked in the eyes of the symbols of employers, the BAUEN hotel has become a symbol for the working class."With worker self-management/organization we are in a process of creating workers in solidarity, people who aren't only worried about a wage.
		On December 28, 2001 after systematic firings and management ransacking rooms, 150 hotel workers were left in the street.
		Along with workers from other recuperated factories and the support of MNER (National Movement of Recuperated Enterprises) the group took over the building, cutting the locks on the side entrance and walking into the lobby.
	www.zmag.org /sustainers/content/2005-06/30trigona.cfm (1091 words)

	Work and Pay in Socialist Bergonia
		the SFP) argue that worker self-rule means that Congress should allow workers to work longer hours in their own industries if they want, but this gives some workers power to hog up all the work, and most Bergonian socialists think the available work should be spread around so that no one is unemployed.
		While it is difficult to expect plant workers and clerical workers in the front office to trade work, there is no reason why all the plant workers can't rotate production, maintenance and grunt work, and there is no reason why the office workers can't rotate bookkeeping, filing, accounts receivables and payables and the like.
		If this were so, then the managers and professional workers could exploit the federated structure of the enterprise to give themselves huge pay and start oppressing the common workers.
	www.bergonia.org /pay.htm (3886 words)

	Varieties of Socialism
		If technocratic and centrally-planned socialism stand in conflict with worker self-management (and the value of participatory autonomy), no such conflict exists between self-management and a participatory "pure market socialism"-- a laissez-faire economy in which workers, not stockholders, have full legal control of their enterprises.
		I have called this feature "worker self-management." Commitments to liberty, democracy, participatory autonomy and the value of meaningful work all provide a basis for a commitment to worker self-management.
		As to the "obstructing or retarding the closing of uneconomic plants and dismissals of excess labor" that is a virtue of worker control, not a vice.
	www.nathanielturner.com /varietiesofsocialism.htm (2060 words)

	Socialist Collectives in Bergonia
		Workers have the incentive to work hard and contribute to their enterprise, and generally are content to do so under the direction of competent management.
		When the manager turns into a boss, the workers are perfectly within their rights to back-talk him, ridicule him, occupy his office, and scatter his papers.
		Managers not only receive good salaries (like the other workers, taken out of "labor’s portion"), but the workers often promise them performance bonuses at the end of the accounting period.
	www.bergonia.org /collectives.htm (4806 words)

	RevolutionaryLeft.com -> Common Sense Reasons For Worker Self-Management - THE BOSS N
		Workers who try to live of the work of others while doing nothing will be kicked out of the job at the discretion of their co-workers.
		Many workers are paid a fixed salary (instead of by the hour) so they can be worked as much as the boss likes without paying them for overtime.
		Overtime costs a boss less than hiring a new worker, but the workers who works overtime actually gets paid less than that additional work after they pay income tax (it may even increase their tax rate).
	www.revolutionaryleft.com /index.php?showtopic=5965 (3503 words)

	GEO::Grassroots Economic Organizing
		There is almost no sympathy with the self-management system, yet—and this seemed one vestige of hope—in the back of their minds workers consider the firms to be “theirs.” These firms are, however, deteriorating for lack of investment.
		Workers’ councils have been replaced by boards representing owners.
		In the former Yugoslavia, there is a significant fraction of worker ownership in privatized enterprises, but little evidence of a desire to maintain, let alone expand it; nor is it valued as a vehicle for economic democracy.
	www.geo.coop /yugodecln.htm (1179 words)

	DOE Safety Improvement Initiatives
		Finally, management walkabouts contribute significantly to the visible management involvement that is required under the VPP element of management leadership.
		The key elements of Enhanced Work Planning are line management ownership; a graded approach to work management, based on risk and complexity; worker involvement beginning at the earliest phases of work management; organizationally diverse teams; and organized, institutionalized communication.
		Worker involvement in all aspects of planning, performing and evaluation of work activities is essential for the Department and the PHMC to fulfill its assigned mission..
	www.hanford.gov /safety/vpp/isms.htm (1734 words)

	Chapter 13
		More than half the workers refused to participate in the rigged electoral farce, because they did not expect any real changes, or because there was only one candidate on the ballot.
		the functions of the unions are to cooperate in improving management performance; strengthen labor discipline; assure attendance at work, increase production, and eradicate absenteeism, malingering and carelessness..." (31)
		Purchase of scarce appliances (television sets, refrigerators, washing machines, etc.) are allotted not according to the worker's need but according to his correct attitude (obeying orders, patriotism, overfullfillment of work quotas, etc.) The faithful wage slave will be allowed to spend his vacation at the better resorts and be granted first access to housing.
	dwardmac.pitzer.edu /Anarchist_Archives/bright/dolgoff/cubanrevolution/chapter13.html (5302 words)

	Center for Global Justice
		Worker ownership of same-firm stock, unaccompanied by other elements of worker self-management listed above cannot be shown conclusively to improve a corporation's growth.
		Clamp, Christina A., "The Evolution of Management in the Mondragón Co-operatives," Presented at Canadian Association for the Study of Co-operation, University of Victoria, 2003.
		6 However, MCC's report for 2002 states: "The Eroski group [MCC's largest and fastest growing business] operates in Spain and the south of France and has 29,013 workers, of which 13,079 are worker-owners." That's less than half.
	www.globaljusticecenter.org /papers/bowstone_notes.htm (1797 words)

	Business Horizons: Teams and TQM - total quality management - includes related articles
		In 1980, Mohd Azmi Abdullah, the plant's TQM manager, read and began to discuss with others a chapter from a book by Peter Drucker in which the author argued the value of worker self-management.
		The city is the setting for a story about a company that has evolved over the years from a traditional management structure to TQM (total quality management) to self-managed work teams.
		Of particular interest to TIM managers were the three prerequisites for self-management: productive work, continuous feedback enabling self-direction, and a continuous learning environment.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1038/is_n5_v37/ai_15859240 (1393 words)

	Journal of Mass Media Ethics
		In this paper I argue for worker self-management of the media, particularly the press.
		I begin with a general argument for self-management of enterprises.
	jmme.byu.edu /view.php?a=197 (201 words)

	Untitled
		employees' interest, insofar as possible, in satisfying and self-actualizing work: changes over time, in response to government's role, unions' roles, human resource management practices, etc.
		Participation by workers in the design of work and workplace tasks
		hierarchy of modes of participation, based on how many issues workers can be involved in
	www.unc.edu /~healdric/soci31/1996/sum/Dec3.html (267 words)

	IAF > Publications > Index > 1979 > Articles
		Self-Management: Worker Participation in Chile, Fourth Qtr 1979, p 8.
		A Communication Experiment, Fourth Qtr 1979, p 17.
	www.iaf.gov /publications/miscellaneous_text_en.asp?misc_year=1979 (113 words)

	Minnesota Worker Cooperatives
		Welcome to an informational website about Worker Cooperatives in Minnesota, and is maintained by the Federation of Workplace Democracies in Minnesota.
		The purpose of this website is to provide information about worker cooperatives, collectives, and other democratic workplaces.
		FWD-MN, pronounced "Forward Minnesota", is a federation of worker cooperatives, volunteer collectives, and democratically run non-profits in Minnesota.
	www.mncooperate.org (403 words)

	curriculumvitae
		"Worker Ownership in the U.S.", Conference of the International Institute for Self-management, Galgaheviz, Hungary, 7/28-8/1/97.
		"Who is the Self in Self-management?," Conference on the Political Economy of Self-management, Inter-university Centre, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, May 13-24, 1991.
		"Self-Management, Ownership and the Media," Conference on the Political Economy of Self- Management, Inter-University Centre of Post-Graduate Studies, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, May 7-20, 1989.
	www.umaine.edu /philosophy/mikehoward/curriculumvitae.htm (1967 words)

	Social Policy: Worker Self-Management in Historial Perspective
		his essay briefly surveys the potentialities of workers’ self-management (WSM) in the context of experiences during the 20th century that point towards historic lessons relevant to contemporary efforts by workers to democratically operate the enterprises in which they work.
		Most recently, WSM was a major tool used by Argentinean workers who took over more than 200 factories during the recent chaos of their country’s economy.
		This experience is part of a more than 200-year-old tradition, which in the current context warrants a closer look.
	www.socialpolicy.org /index.php?id=843 (237 words)

	No Boss News: The Journal of Worker Self-Management
		No Boss News: The Journal of Worker Self-Management
		iww.org: the website of the Industrial Workers of the World.
		Yes, the Wobblies are still around, causing trouble for bosses.
	www.slugbooks.com /nobossnews (138 words)

	Social Policy: Winter 2003/Spring 2004
		This essay briefly surveys the potentialities of workers’ self-management (WSM) in the context of experiences during the 20th century that point towards historic lessons relevant to contemporary efforts by workers to democratically operate the enterprises in which they work.
		The question of war and peace, the invasion and continuing...
	www.socialpolicy.org /index.php?id=800 (484 words)

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