Challenging the degeneration thesis: the role of democracy in worker cooperatives?

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Challenging the degeneration thesis: the role of democracy in worker cooperatives?

This paper uses data collected through written narratives, focus groups and participant observation in three small UK worker cooperatives to investigate the role of democracy in maintaining cooperatives’ dual social-economic characteristic and resisting degeneration. More specifically, it adds to li...

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Main Author:	Langmead, Kiri
Format:	Article
Published:	European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises 2017
Subjects:	Worker Cooperative Degeneration thesis Democracy Alternative economy Social-economic Characteristic Dual Characteristic Workplace democracy Cooperative
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41739/

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