Working democracies : managing inequality in worker cooperatives / Joan S. M. Meyers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meyers, Joan S. M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Equality.

Producer cooperatives--California--Case studies.

Producer cooperatives.

Producer cooperatives--Management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (323 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"This book is a comparative multiyear study of two worker-owned cooperative firms in California with similar founding histories and contemporary demographics, but different internal earnings, occupation, and autonomy inequalities. It assesses the role of organizational structure and organizational identity in the inequalities examined."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Worker cooperatives: what workers want

"By deed instead of by argument:" worker ownership in the United States

Metamorphoses: worker cooperatives in the Golden Valley

People's Daily Bread Bakery: worker ownership, working-class empowerment

One World Natural Grocery: managing without managers

Managerial and participatory bureaucracies: varieties of inequality regimes

Worker identities: making inequality regimes meaningful

Bureaucracies, democracies, and economies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5017-6370-9

OCLC:

1315645520