Worker Participation: Current Research and Future Trends, Volume 16 (Research in the Sociology of Work)

Cover......Page 1
Worker Participation: Current Research and Future Trends......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
List of Contributors......Page 10
Worker Participation: Current Research and Future Trends......Page 12
Outcomes Related to Worker Participation in Capitalist Firms......Page 14
Participation in Worker-Owned Organizations......Page 17
Conditioning Workplace and Labor Force Participation: State and Labor Movement Effects on Workers......Page 19
Conclusion......Page 20
Acknowledgments......Page 21
References......Page 22
Introduction......Page 28
The Theoretical Impasse......Page 30
Beyond the Impasse: Some Arguments about the Nature of Workplace Change......Page 32
Discussion and Conclusions......Page 43
Notes......Page 45
References......Page 46
Organizational Narratives and the Construction of Resistance: Union Organizing at a ‘‘Progressive’’ Company......Page 50
Introduction......Page 51
Research Methods......Page 53
Whole Foods Market Organizational Narrative......Page 54
Narratives about Employment and Community Citizenship......Page 56
Origins of the Madison Union Organizing Drive......Page 62
Team Member Empowerment, Participation, and Communication......Page 65
Improving Whole Foods Market and Maintaining the Values of the Company......Page 68
‘‘Whole Foods Supports the Rights of its Workers to Unionize’’......Page 69
‘‘A Workplace Based on Mutual Trust, Respect and Love’’......Page 70
‘‘The Best way to Respect the wishes of our Madison Team Members is to Withdraw Recognition from the Union’’......Page 72
Conclusion......Page 74
References......Page 77
The Effect of Participative Work Systems on Employee Earnings......Page 80
Introduction......Page 82
Theory and Research......Page 84
Data......Page 86
4.1. General Social Survey......Page 90
4.2. Class Structure and Labor Market Surveys......Page 96
Conclusion......Page 101
References......Page 102
Appendix......Page 105
Gendered Contradictions: Managers and Women Workers in Self-Managed Teams......Page 110
Methods......Page 112
Gender and Development, Sex Segregation, and Gendered Organizations Theories......Page 113
Management’s Role in Self-Managed Teams: Gendering Teams......Page 116
Recruitment: Selecting the Ideal Worker......Page 118
Training: Filtering out Independence and Building up Family......Page 122
Placement: Women’s Work and Men’s Work......Page 126
Worker’s Response: Accommodation and Resistance......Page 129
Accommodation: Reinforcing Gender Ideologies through Increased Efficiency......Page 130
Resistance: Marshalling Independence in the Name of Traditional Femininity......Page 133
Discussion......Page 135
Notes......Page 137
References......Page 138
You Get Paid for that?: Job and Establishment Level Variations in the Use of Incentive Compensation*......Page 142
Background......Page 143
The Devaluation Hypothesis: Racial and Gender Discrimination......Page 147
Evolutionary Economics: Costs and Benefits......Page 148
Data......Page 149
Dependent Variable......Page 151
Establishment Level Controls......Page 152
Descriptives......Page 153
Analytic Strategy......Page 155
Multivariate Results......Page 159
Conclusion......Page 162
Notes......Page 164
References......Page 165
Job Zone 3: Medium Preparation Needed (SVP Range: 6.0 < 7.0)......Page 169
Job Zone 5: Extensive Preparation Needed (SVP Range: 8.0 and above)......Page 170
Introduction......Page 176
Worker Participation and Lean Production......Page 180
General Motors’ ‘‘Lean’’ Global Manufacturing System......Page 184
Worker Participation in Silao......Page 187
Worker Participation in Janesville......Page 191
Conclusion......Page 196
References......Page 198
Introduction......Page 204
Meanings and Practices of Democracy......Page 206
Cooperativism Vis-à-Vis Political, Social, and Economic Conceptions of Democracy......Page 207
The Transformation of the Citizen to the Consumer......Page 211
Fostering a Consensus around Certain Values......Page 215
Seeking (and Finding) Leadership and Inspiration......Page 216
Recognizing the Interdependence of the Social and the Economic......Page 217
The Decline and Possible Revival of Organized Labor......Page 218
Other Forms of Democratic Organizing Today......Page 221
Conclusion: Commitments, Obstacles, Capitulation, and Hopes......Page 222
Notes......Page 224
References......Page 225
Workplace Democracy Comes of Age: Economic Stability, Growth, and Workforce Diversity......Page 230
Possibilities and Limits of Worker Ownership: Literature Review......Page 231
One World Natural Grocery: A Case History......Page 236
Research Methods......Page 238
Densely Clustered Democracy......Page 239
Economic Growth......Page 240
Producing Diversity......Page 246
Two Hundred Bosses......Page 253
Growth and Stability......Page 254
Affording Heterogeneity......Page 255
Conclusion......Page 256
Notes......Page 258
References......Page 260
Can Collectivist-Democracy bring Gender Equality? The Efforts at Twin Oaks......Page 264
Methods......Page 266
Overview of Twin Oaks......Page 267
Childcare Work and Gender Equality at Twin Oaks......Page 269
Turning Private Household Labor into Publicly Appreciated Work......Page 273
The Division of Labor, Demystification of Skills and Gender Equality......Page 276
Conclusion: Implications of Gender Equality in Collectivist-Democratic Organizations......Page 283
References......Page 287
Demographic and Environmental Influences on the Diffusion of Changes Among Israeli Kibbutzim, 1990–2001......Page 288
Introduction......Page 289
Diffusion of Innovations among Israeli Kibbutzim, 1990–2001......Page 292
Degeneration, Regeneration, and Organizational Inertia......Page 298
Effects of Adoption of Innovations by Similar Organizations......Page 299
Hypotheses......Page 300
Control Variables......Page 302
Modeling Transitions......Page 303
Results......Page 305
Discussion......Page 308
Conclusions......Page 310
References......Page 311
Measures......Page 314
Note on Pooling of Observations......Page 315
Cooperative Entrepreneurialism: Reconciling Democratic Values with Business Demands at a Worker-Owned Firm......Page 318
Case History......Page 320
Literature Review......Page 323
Findings......Page 327
The Early Years......Page 329
The Boom Years......Page 331
The Reorganization Years......Page 334
Conclusion......Page 337
Notes......Page 338
References......Page 339
Opportunities and Challenges Facing New Workforce Institutions: A Close-up Analysis of an Alternative Staffing Service......Page 344
Contingent Employment and its Disadvantages......Page 346
Experimenting in New Forms of Employment – Overview of the Successes and Challenges of WPSS......Page 348
Research Methods and Data Collection......Page 349
Getting off the Ground: Developing Organizational Capacity and a Strong Infrastructure......Page 351
Modeling or Innovating?......Page 354
Generating Profits or Advocating for Workers?......Page 358
Maximizing Profits or Delivering Services and Mobilizing Members?......Page 359
Legal, Structural, and Organizational Challenges Associated with Servicing and Mobilizing the Contingent Workforce......Page 361
Conclusion......Page 362
Notes......Page 364
References......Page 366
The Spirit of Outsourcing: Corporate and State Regulation of Labor under H-1B Visa and TANF Policies in the U.S.......Page 370
Introduction: TANF and the H-1B Visa in the Context of the Global Economy and the Logic of Outsourcing......Page 371
The Changing Nature of Work and Employment Relations......Page 373
Methodology and Data......Page 377
Findings......Page 378
Outsourcing and Welfare Reform......Page 379
Welfare Clients and Employers......Page 380
Outsourcing and the H-1B Visa......Page 386
Workers on H-1B Visas and Employers......Page 387
The State as an Agent and Client of Outsourcing......Page 391
Conclusion......Page 393
References......Page 395
Getting Jobs and Building Careers: Reproducing Inequality in State-Sponsored Job Search Organizations......Page 400
Labor Market Intermediaries......Page 402
Methods and Cases......Page 404
Organizational Logics......Page 408
Resources......Page 409
Pedagogy......Page 410
Modeling Behavioral Norms......Page 411
Tempering Aspirations......Page 413
Resources......Page 414
Pedagogy......Page 415
Modeling Behavioral Norms......Page 417
Tempering Aspirations......Page 418
Comparative Findings......Page 419
Conclusion......Page 422
Acknowledgments......Page 424
References......Page 425
About the Authors......Page 428