Employee Relations: An International Journal

Benson, Colin

1980 Employee Relations: An International Journal

doi: 10.1108/eb054944

Many people are looking for a change in their working environmentconcerned about such widely divergent problems as job satisfaction, security of employment, the introduction of democratic decision making and the responsibilities of industry and commerce to the wider social spectrum. Such concern is likely to be accelerated in the next decade by changes brought about by microprocessor technology. However, commercial change is usually the result of entrepreneurial activity, which is often assumed to be a purely capitalistic activity. This article introduces the concept of producers' cooperatives and highlights the place of entrepreneurship. This has evolved in an unusual way in the Mondragon Cooperatives of Northern Spain.

Herrick, Neal

1980 Employee Relations: An International Journal

doi: 10.1108/eb054945

This is a study of factory workers in a large midwestern industrial city and municipal workers in a town of less than 70 thousand inhabitants.

Leary, Malcolm

1980 Employee Relations: An International Journal

doi: 10.1108/eb054946

In a recent essay for the German news magazine Der Spiegel, Rolph Dahrendorf, head of the London School of Economics, as something of an outsider to the British IR scene, stated

Kynaston Reeves, Tom

1980 Employee Relations: An International Journal

doi: 10.1108/eb054947

The shortcoming of secret ballots, as with any other kind of opinion poll, is that people may choose not to believe them. Indeed, where important industrial relations issues are at stake, parties to a dispute may go to great lengths to try and prove the invalidity of an unpalatable result.