The development of the welfare state has been accompanied by greater freedoms being granted to workers in industrialized capitalist countries. The themes of this volume concern how governments, trade unions, and workers have acted to promote economic growth and economic accountability with active industrial or worker self-management policies. The key

The privatization revolution, profit or revenue sharing, and employee participation in enterprise decision making are some of the major characteristics of modern capitalism. Such features can be observed in almost all countries, including Western developed, Third World, and primarily ex-socialist countries. The diffusion of stock ownership, the promotion of economic

This book is for the organizational staff and management, state policy makers, economists, students, and leaders. It is also useful for world organizations (IMF, World Bank, IFC etc.) working to create Jobs, investigating economic crisis and allocating resources. Students can benefit from this as it raises critical and novel and

The contributors are all expert in their field. The book examines the theory and history of employee voice and what voice means to various actors, including employers, middle managers, employees, unions and policy-makers. The authors observe how these

The contemporary debate on economic policy is dominated by the issue of 'which model of capitalism works best'.