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Author Wilken, Folkert

Title The Liberation of Work The Elimination of Strikes and Strife in Industry Through Associative Organization of Enterprise
Published Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2024

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Description 1 online resource (126 p.)
Series Routledge Revivals Series
Routledge Revivals Series
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter I: The Labour-Market, an Economic Contradiction and a Social Fallacy -- The labour-market and labour morals -- The labour-market, in the light of full employment -- The effects of the labour-market on the structure of the enterprise -- A just income structure -- The workers' claims to the profits -- Rival claims on capital -- Chapter II: Capital Ownership and the Sources of Income -- The entrepreneur as trustee
The neutralization of capital -- The relation of capital neutralization to a just income structure -- Chapter III: The Search for a New Social Concept of Labour Relations -- Solidarity between entrepreneur and workers -- Ownership of the means of production -- The physical and human polarities within an enterprise -- The operation of the working community -- Chapter IV: The Workers' Responsibilities -- The separation of work and income -- Putting this separation into practice -- Chapter V: Trade Unions and a New Social Order -- The social unification of the workers
Industrial democracy and nationalization, as trade union goals -- The true responsibilities of the trade unions -- Co-operation between trade unions and working-communities -- Chapter VI: Stages in the Constitution of the Enterprise -- The commercial conception of the enterprise -- The business partnership: Gert Spindler and shared-enterprise -- The G. L. Rexroth Ironworks -- The associative business: integration of Scott Bader and Co. -- Associative enterprise and associative economy -- The 'democratic' principle in industry -- The John Lewis Partnership, London
Chapter VII: Socialization in Germany -- The Volkswagen Foundation -- The Staedtler Foundation -- The Carl Zeiss Foundation -- The Robert Bosch Trust -- Summary of methods of neutralizing capital and administering profits -- Conclusion -- References -- Note on the author -- Index
Summary First published in 1969, The Liberation of Work considers how to 'liberate' work, so that It flows freely, happily, creatively, with a minimum of hindrance and frustration
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Genre/Form Electronic books
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ISBN 9781040010761
1040010768