This edited volume explores the circulation of ideas and practices around workplace democracy throughout Europe, and beyond its borders, from the Second World War to the present day. Its chapters examine the role of different actors in disseminating ideas about workplace democracy, focusing on trade unions, academics, political and governmental actors, and international organisations. In doing so, the authors explore how the circulation of knowledge across countries shaped different actors' positions. For instance, how did trade unions and other actors' discourses take academic production into account, and vice versa? How and through which channels did ideas of workplace democracy circulate, including exchanges, study trips, conferences, symposiums, and publications? Which individuals and institutions played the most important role in the circulation of ideas? How did co-determination, self-management, or other 'models' influence discussions, proposals, and concrete measures of workplace democracy on both a European and international level? With fifteen chapters addressing these questions, this collection combines insights from historians, political scientists, legal scholars, and philosophers based in Europe, South America, and North America, therefore contributing to a new comparative, transnational, and global history of workplace democracy.

Adds to a growing body of research on workplace democracy in the social sciences, politics, economics, and history Explores workplace democracy from a global and transnational perspective, focusing on the circulation of ideas Covers diverse themes, such as self-management, workers' councils, co-determinations, and collective bargaining

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Aurélie Andry is an Alexander von Humboldt experienced researcher in the Institute for Social Movements at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.

Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History and Director of the Institute for Social Movements at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. Along with Holger Nehring and Nikolaos Papadogiannis, he edits the book series, Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements.

Sophia Friedel is a Research Associate in the Institute for Social Movements at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.

Frank Georgi is Professor of Contemporary Social History at Évry Paris-Saclay University, France, and Deputy Dean of the Graduate School Humanities - Heritage Science at Paris-Saclay University.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Introduction: Towards a Transnational History of Workplace Democracy; Aurélie Andry, Stefan Berger, Sophia Friedel and Frank Georgi.- Part I. Two Rival European Models in Circulation: Co-determination and Self-management.- Chapter 2. German 'Mitbestimmung' as the Ultimate Means to Democratize the Workplace in Western Europe?; Sophia Friedel.- Chaprer 3. French Views on German Codetermination from the 1950s to the Present; Alexandre Bibert.- Chapter 4. The Franco-Italian Exchanges on Self-management between Gorz and the Operaists; Celine Marty.- Chapter 5. How Yugoslav Self-Management Inspired the Ideas and Activism of the Institute for Workers' Control in Britain, 1960s-1980s; Aurelie Andry and Vladimir Unkovski.- Chapter 6. Peripheral Nationalism, Autonomy and Self-management: The Case of the Corsican Trade Unionists of the CFDT, 1971-1982; Guillaume Genoud.- Part II. Alternative Models and Experiences of Workplace Democracy.- Chapter 7. Workplace Democracy in Western Europe. The Moment of Liberation, 1944-1945; Gerd-Rainer Horn.- Chapter 8. Comparative Perspectives on Industrial Democracy in Twentieth-century Britain: A Failed Mainstream and the Lost Road of Christian Labourism; Peter Ackers.- Chapter 9. The Circulation of Ideas on Workplace Democracy: Comparing the Debates amongst the Landesgruppe Deutscher Gewerkschafter and the Trades Union Congress, 1940-1945; Rebecca Zahn.- Chapter 10. Czechoslovakia: How Practices of Economic Democracy Helped Remove the Political Dominance of the Communist Party in 1989; Vaclav Rames.- Part III. Workplace Democracy in European Institutions and International Organisations.- Chapter 11. Worker Participation in Transnational Corporate Restructuring Measures in Europe; Holm-Detlev Köhler.- Chapter 12. Workplace Democracy and the International Labour Organization; Charles Lurquin.- Part IV. Global Circulations Beyond Europe.- Chapter 13. Sarajevo Caput Mundi: The Global Dimension of the 1971 Second Congress of Yugoslav Self-Managers; Benedetto Zaccaria.- Chapter 14. Self-management Crosses the Ocean: Explorations from a Latin-American Labour Organisation during the Sixties and Seventies; Gabriela Scodeller.- Chapter 15. The Italian Reception of the Algerian Self-management Experiment, 1962-65; Nicola Lamri.- Chapter 16. Conclusions and Future Research Agendas; Aurélie Andry, Stefan Berger, Sophia Freidel and Frank Georgi.