Volume 16: Workplace Participation
2006
Professor Vicki Smith, editor
Department of Sociology
University of California
Davis, CA 95616
916-752-0782
email: vasmith@ucdavis.edu
Volume 16 of RESEARCH IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF WORK offers cutting-edge articles
on the character and implications of workplace participation. Chapter authors
examine various outcomes related to participation programs -- ways in which
participation schemes are socially constructed and negotiated; the meanings
that workers attach to opportunities for involvement in the workplace; participation
and consent in alternative organizations such as cooperatives and collectives;
and theoretical treatments that bring new insights to our understanding of
workplace participation. Methodologically pluralist and concerned less
with specific productivity effects of worker participation, this volume highlights
participation's social-structural, social-constructionist, and meta-theoretical
dimensions.
Table of Contents
Vicki Smith,
Introduction: "Worker Participation: Current Research and Future Trends"
Part I: Worker Participation in Contemporary Corporate Workplaces
Steven Peter Vallas, "Theorizing Teamwork under Contemporary Capitalism"
Joshua L. Carreiro, "Organizational
Narratives and the Construction of Resistance: Union Organizing at
a 'Progressive' Company"
Michael J. Handel, "The Effect of
Participative Work Systems on Employee Earnings"
Nancy Plankey Videla, "Gendered
Contradictions: Managers and Women Workers in Self-Managed Teams"
Jeremy Reynolds, "You Get Paid for
That? Job and Establishment Level Variations in the Use of Incentive
Compensation"
Jeffrey S. Rothstein, "Selective
Participation: Controlling Workers' Input at General Motors"
Part II: Recent Trends in Cooperatives
George Cheney, "Democracy at
Work Within the Market: Reconsidering the Potential"
Joan S. M. Meyers, "Workplace
Democracy Comes of Age: Economic Stability, Growth, and Workforce
Diversity"
Joyce Rothschild and Amy Tomchin, "Can
Collectivist-Democracy Bring Gender Equality? The Efforts at Twin
Oaks"
Raymond Russell, Robert Hanneman, and Shlomo Getz, "Demographic and
Environmental Influences on the Diffusion of Change Among the Israeli Kibbutzim,
1990-2001"
Joel Schoening, "Cooperative
Entrepreneurialism: Reconciling Democratic Values with Business Demands
at a Worker-Owned Firm"
Part III: Mediating Worker Participation: The Labor Movement and
the State
Esther B. Neuwirth, "Opportunities
and Challenges Facing New Workforce Institutions: A Close-up Analysis
of an Alternative Staffing Service"
Frank Ridzi and Payal Banerjee, "The Spirit of
Outsourcing: Corporate and State Regulation of
Labor under the H-1B Visa and TANF Policies in the U.S."
Vicki Smith, Heather Kohler Flynn, and Jonathan Isler, "Finding Jobs and Building
Careers: Reproducing Inequality in State-Sponsored Job Search Organizations"