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Heck, Ramona K. Z., and Rosemary Walker. "Family-Owned Home Businesses: Their Employees and Unpaid Helpers." Family Business Review 6, no. 4 (December 1993): 397–415. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-6248.1993.00397.x.

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Family-owned home-based businesses traditionally utilize a workforce of paid workers, contracting workers, and unpaid helpers. Each type of worker may be categorized as family, related, or unrelated. The research reported here shows that not all worker types increase business outputs. Family workers, family helpers, and unrelated workers contribute in positive ways to business outputs. In contrast, unpaid related helpers decrease net income, and contracting related workers increase the work hours of the business owner.

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De Reuver, Renée, Brigitte Kroon, Damian Madinabeitia Olabarria, and Unai Elorza Iñurritegui. "Employee Satisfaction in Labor-Owned and Managed Workplaces: Helping Climate and Participation Spillover to Non-Owners." Sustainability 13, no. 6 (March 16, 2021): 3278. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13063278.

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In contrast to shareholder-owned organizations, worker-owned cooperative organizations foster employee wellbeing such as employee satisfaction as an important outcome by itself. Due to expansions and economic fluctuations, larger worker-owned cooperations nowadays use mixtures of employment contracts resulting in varying shares of co-owners, contracted and temporary employees in workplaces. In the current paper, we research if this situation challenges the moral commitment of worker cooperatives to their employees, which derive from the cooperative philosophy on corporate responsibility. Where previous research contrasted employee wellbeing in worker cooperatives with share- holder owner organizations, this paper describes how various shares of co-owners in workplaces change mediating processes of helping climate and workplace participation and ultimately result in different levels of employee satisfaction. Archival data combined with survey data of 5907 employees in 99 hypermarkets were tested with multivariate analyses, and indicated that the helping climate and workplace participation positively mediated the association between the share of co-owners in hypermarkets and employee satisfaction. The findings imply that traditional worker-owned cooperatives, where a majority of all workers are owners, had more success in fostering cooperative values as a strategic outcome.

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Quarter, Jack. "Recent Trends in the Worker-Ownership Movement in Canada: Four Alternative Models." Economic and Industrial Democracy 11, no. 4 (November 1990): 529–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0143831x9001100405.

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Ontaro Institute for Studies in Educafton This paper analyzes four relatively recent models for the creation of worker-owned enterprises in Canada. The models are: (1) an integrated system of worker cooperatives; (2) integrating worker cooperatives within a system of other types of cooperatives; (3) a system of multi-stakeholder cooperatives; and (4) joint ventures involving a cooperative of the workers in partnership with privately owned corporations, private entrepreneurs and in some cases with established worker cooperatives. These four models are analyzed in terms of their potential to overcome problems that have traditionally plagued worker cooperative development.

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Rooney, Patrick Michael. "Worker Participation in Employee-Owned Firms." Journal of Economic Issues 22, no. 2 (June 1988): 451–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00213624.1988.11504775.

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Sobering, Katherine, Jessica Thomas, and Christine L. Williams. "Gender In/equality in Worker-owned Businesses." Sociology Compass 8, no. 11 (October 27, 2014): 1242–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/soc4.12208.

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Ji, Minsun. "With or without class: Resolving Marx’s Janus-faced interpretation of worker-owned cooperatives." Capital & Class 44, no. 3 (June 13, 2019): 345–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309816819852757.

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To shed light on polarized perspectives regarding the virtues or downfalls of worker cooperatives among variants of Marxists, this article focuses on Marx’s own Janus-faced analysis of worker cooperatives. Marx had great faith in the radical potential of worker cooperatives, properly organized and politically oriented, but he also was greatly critical of the tendency of cooperatives to shrink their political horizons and become isolated from broader labor movements. Although thinkers in the Marxist tradition criticize worker cooperatives when they operate as isolated circles of ‘collective capitalists’ within the existing capitalist system, Marx himself saw important potential in the cooperative movement, to the extent that it was integrated into broader campaigns for social change. Marx believed that cooperatives could help point the way to an alternative system of free and equal producers, and could prompt radical imaginings among their advocates, but only to the extent that cooperative practitioners recognized the need for class-conscious, industrial scale organizing of workers against the capitalist system. In the end, Marx did not so much focus on promoting a certain type of labor organization as being most conducive to transformation (e.g. worker cooperatives or labor unions). Rather, he focused more on the importance of class consciousness within labor organizing, and on the development of radicalized class consciousness among workers, whether through the expansion of labor unions, worker cooperatives, or any other institution of worker empowerment. It is the nature of a labor institution’s focus on developing and sustaining class consciousness, not the nature of the labor institution itself (i.e. cooperative or union), that Marx believed to most powerfully shape the radical or degenerative tendencies of local forms of labor activism.

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Wren, David. "The culture of UK employee-owned worker cooperatives." Employee Relations: The International Journal 42, no. 3 (February 18, 2020): 761–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/er-12-2018-0327.

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PurposeThis paper presents exploratory, empirical data from a three-year study of organizational culture in for-profit, employee-owned businesses within the UK, comparing ownership types (direct, trust, and cooperative). It outlines the study and then focuses on worker cooperatives. Culture is illuminated through the lens of performance and reward management.Design/methodology/approachQualitative data was gathered from three worker cooperatives based in the North of England, using semi-structured interviews, participant observation, and document review and was compared to qualitative data collected from other types of employee-owned businesses.FindingsThe findings suggest a distinct culture within worker cooperatives encompassing five key values: a whole life perspective, consistently shared values, self-ownership, self-control, and secure employment.Research limitations/implicationsAdditional time with each cooperative and a greater spread of cooperatives would be beneficial. The research was carried out during a period of organizational growth for the case organizations, which may influence attitudes to reward and retention management.Practical implicationsThe results inform recruitment and retention policy and practice within worker cooperatives and highlight concerns regarding the stresses of being a self-owner. These are important considerations for potential worker co-operatives alongside policy recommendations to advance employee ownership.Originality/valueA comparative analysis of culture, performance, and rewards across different employee ownership types has not been undertaken before. This addresses an under-researched area of employee ownership regarding HR practices. Within the UK, recent research on the culture(s) of worker cooperatives is limited.

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Doucouliagos, Chris. "Worker Participation and Productivity in Labor-Managed and Participatory Capitalist Firms: A Meta-Analysis." ILR Review 49, no. 1 (October 1995): 58–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001979399504900104.

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Using meta-analytic techniques, the author synthesizes the results of 43 published studies to investigate the effects on productivity of various forms of worker participation: worker participation in decision making; mandated codetermination; profit sharing; worker ownership (employee stock ownership or individual worker ownership of the firm's assets); and collective ownership of assets (workers' collective ownership of reserves over which they have no individual claim). He finds that codetermination laws are negatively associated with productivity, but profit sharing, worker ownership, and worker participation in decision making are all positively associated with productivity. All the observed correlations are stronger among labor-managed firms (firms owned and controlled by workers) than among participatory capitalist firms (firms adopting one or more participation schemes involving employees, such as ESOPs or quality circles).

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Nolan, Stephen, Eleonore Perrin Massebiaux, and Tomas Gorman. "Saving Jobs, Promoting Democracy: Worker Co-Operatives." Irish Journal of Sociology 21, no. 2 (November 2013): 103–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.7227/ijs.21.2.8.

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The article examines transformative alternatives that may offer pathways to a more participative, sustainable and equitable social order. It focuses on one form of alternative, worker-owned co-operatives, and argues this existing form of democratic and economic relations has already proven capacity to generate more equitable socio-economic outcomes and residual social capital. The worker-owned model islocated within an ideological framework that focuses on the inherent democratising principles of their praxis that can in the right circumstances underpin firm strategic foundations for radical social change. It examines the development of worker-owned co-ops in Ireland north and south and the obstacles that need to be overcome to make these a more feasible and common form of economic ownership. Reflecting on the current debate in Ireland it argues such co-ops cannot work effectively without a secure legal framework governing their status and softer supports including entrepreneurship development, leadership training, market research, accessing loan finance and grant aid, inter-cooperative networking and federation building. The article poses workers' co-operatives as sites of political struggle and consciousness, expressed in co-operatives' core values including sovereignty of labour, the subordinate nature of capital, democracy, inter-cooperation and sustainability, and in tangible democratic experiences and transformative praxis.

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Hahnel, Robin. "Reducing Inequities Among Worker-Owned Cooperatives: A Proposal." Eastern Economic Journal 35, no. 2 (March 31, 2009): 174–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/eej.2008.10.

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Albanese, Marina, Cecilia Navarra, and Ermanno Tortia. "Equilibrium unemployment as a worker insurance device: wage setting in worker owned enterprises." Economia Politica 36, no. 3 (January 3, 2019): 653–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40888-018-00139-z.

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Chiu, Catherine C. H. "Changing Experiences of Work in Reformed State-Owned Enterprises in China." Organization Studies 27, no. 5 (January 9, 2006): 677–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0170840606061076.

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Although previous studies on state-owned enterprise (SOE) reforms in China report the ascendancy of management control and highlight the exploitation of workers, studies that adopt a path-dependent approach report that managers in reformed SOEs are constrained by their traditional socialist ideology and practices in imposing drastic changes. Against this background, a study involving seven reformed SOEs was conducted. This paper focuses on worker reactions to enterprise reforms, and presents analyses that are based on the context-dependent approach to organizational changes in the West. Management control has become stricter in all of the reformed SOEs, but there are significant differences in various work dimensions across enterprises. Multivariate analyses indicate that improved job security and increased mental labour are key predictors of increased job satisfaction. This paper confirms the theoretical values of the context-dependent approach and introduces theoretically derived analyses to worker reactions to SOE reforms in China.

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Li, Huaiyin. "Worker Performance in State-Owned Factories in Maoist China." Modern China 42, no. 4 (September 16, 2015): 377–414. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0097700415604580.

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Matthew, Rebecca A. "(Re)Envisioning Human Service Labor: Worker-Owned Cooperative Possibilities." Journal of Progressive Human Services 28, no. 2 (April 18, 2017): 107–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10428232.2017.1292490.

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Ben-Ner, Avner. "Comparative empirical observations on worker-owned and capitalist firms." International Journal of Industrial Organization 6, no. 1 (March 1988): 7–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0167-7187(88)90003-3.

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BONATTI, Luigi, and Lorenza A. LORENZETTI. "WHY WAGES TEND TO BE LOWER IN WORKER-OWNED FIRMS THAN IN INVESTOR-OWNED FIRMS." Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics 89, no. 4 (March 30, 2018): 563–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/apce.12204.

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Albanese, Marina, Cecilia Navarra, and Ermanno C. Tortia. "Employer moral hazard and wage rigidity. The case of worker owned and investor owned firms." International Review of Law and Economics 43 (August 2015): 227–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.irle.2014.08.006.

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Geng, Yude, Siboyu Sun, and Youn Yeo-Chang. "Impact of Forest Logging Ban on the Welfare of Local Communities in Northeast China." Forests 12, no. 1 (December 22, 2020): 3. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f12010003.

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Background and Objectives: In order to effectively protect and restore natural forest resources, the Chinese government banned logging in state-owned forests of northeast China in April 2015. This is an enormous change for people who live in that region, especially forestry workers and their families, who depend on state-owned forestry enterprises. Following the welfare changes in worker households in a timely manner is conducive to gaining a better understanding of the development status of state-owned forest areas, so as to provide a scientific basis for the government to formulate forest policies that will contribute to sustainable development. Materials and Methods: Using Sen’s theory of welfare measurement, we measured the change in welfare of forestry worker households based on an empirical research framework that measures the function and gap in welfare before and after the logging ban. Results: (1) The welfare of worker households changed due to the logging ban in terms of function; social security, dwelling conditions, and psychological conditions improved, whereas economic status and social opportunity declined. (2) The logging ban had different impacts on the welfare of forestry worker households depending on their livelihood. Low-income households solely dependent on forestry work or engaged in this work for diversified income were impacted most by the ban, while high-income households engaged in forestry as a major source of income or for complementary income were impacted less. (3) The logging ban seems to affect social welfare distribution: the proportion of households classified as low welfare increased, while that of high-welfare households decreased.

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Heras-Saizarbitoria, Iñaki. "The ties that bind? Exploring the basic principles of worker-owned organizations in practice." Organization 21, no. 5 (August 20, 2014): 645–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350508414537623.

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The Mondragon Cooperative Experience has been one of the worker-owned alternative organizations that has received the most attention in the academic world. Despite its economic success, this experience has also been wrought with its own share of tensions and internal paradoxes. Surprisingly, the perspective of worker–member–owners in the analysis of those inconsistencies in Mondragon has been given very little prominence. Similarly, the equivalence between the formal policies defined in that experience and the day-to-day activity has been widely taken for granted in the literature. This article aims to fill this gap and contribute to the literature by analyzing the extent to which Mondragon’s basic cooperative principles are applied in the daily practice from the perspective of worker–member–owners. To that end, in-depth interviews were conducted with worker–member–owners of Mondragon outside their working environment. An interpretative analysis provides evidence of a decoupling of cooperative principles from the workers’ daily activity. Furthermore, a tacit and non-formal principle frequently surfaces in the interviews: the principle of the primacy of secure membership and guaranteed employment. This seems to be the most solid tie that binds members to their organization, in a context with growing individualization and precarious employment conditions, together with a ubiquitous managerial discourse that encourages shallow forms of workplace participation. This work contributes to the broader field of organizational theory and sheds light on the dissociation process in formal policies of organizations governed by alternative founding principles. It also tries to contribute to the study of the sustainability of such alternative organizations.

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Mikami, Kazuhiko, and Satoru Tanaka. "SUNK COSTS OF CAPITAL AND THE FORM OF ENTERPRISE: INVESTOR-OWNED FIRMS AND WORKER-OWNED FIRMS." Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics 81, no. 1 (March 2010): 77–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8292.2009.00406.x.

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Bowles, Samuel, and Herbert Gintis. "CREDIT MARKET IMPERFECTIONS AND THE INCIDENCE OF WORKER-OWNED FIRMS." Metroeconomica 45, no. 3 (October 1994): 209–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-999x.1994.tb00020.x.

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Pencavel, John, Luigi Pistaferri, and Fabiano Schivardi. "Wages, Employment, and Capital in Capitalist and Worker-Owned Firms." ILR Review 60, no. 1 (October 2006): 23–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001979390606000102.

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Majee, Wilson, and Ann Hoyt. "Are worker-owned cooperatives the brewing pots for social capital?" Community Development 41, no. 4 (October 2010): 417–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15575330.2010.488741.

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Logue, John, and Jacquelyn S. Yates. "Cooperatives, Worker-Owned Enterprises, Productivity and the International Labor Organization." Economic and Industrial Democracy 27, no. 4 (November 2006): 686–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0143831x06069019.

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Perry, Stewart E., and Hunt C. Davis. "The Worker-Owned Firm: The Idea and Its Conceptual Limits." Economic and Industrial Democracy 6, no. 3 (August 1985): 275–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0143831x8500600302.

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Ben-ner, Avner. "The life cycle of worker-owned firms in market economies." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 10, no. 3 (October 1988): 287–313. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0167-2681(88)90052-2.

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Li, Ju. "From “Master” to “Loser”: Changing Working-Class Cultural Identity in Contemporary China." International Labor and Working-Class History 88 (2015): 190–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0147547915000277.

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AbstractThis article explores how the prolonged and erosive deindustrialization in China's struggling state-owned enterprises (SOE), an inevitable result of the neoliberal shift in industrialization policy from socialist import-substitution industrialization to globalized export-oriented industrialization, has changed workers’ perceptions of themselves and their work. Based on in-depth interviews with workers and participant observation in one enterprise—Nanfang Steel—this study describes how what it means to be a worker has changed over two generations of SOE workers. The “glorious” identity of the worker, promoted by the state during the Maoist era, and emphatically proclaimed by elder workers despite its internal limitations and contradictions, has been dismantled by the neoliberal reform and has instead metamorphosed into a newly developed and “stigma-laden” cultural identity created by contemporary hegemonic discourse and then bitterly internalized by currently employed younger workers.

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Lu, Jingfu, and Min Li. "How do Party organizations’ boundary-spanning behaviors control worker unrest? A case study on a Chinese resource-based state-owned enterprise." Employee Relations 39, no. 2 (February 13, 2017): 184–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/er-03-2016-0052.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand the boundary-spanning behaviors of Party organizations, and the processes and constraints of these behaviors in controlling worker unrest in Chinese resource-based state-owned enterprises in the “new work-unit system” using boundary-spanning theory. Design/methodology/approach This case study was carried out in a resource-based state-owned enterprise in the “new work-unit system” in China. The research utilized interviews and archival documents, and then coded and analyzed the data using NVivo. Findings In China, Party organizations’ boundary-spanning behaviors (PBSBs) in labor relations management are identified, and classified into the behaviors of the ambassador, task coordinator, and scout. Worker unrest can be controlled by these behaviors through the mediation effect of the behaviors of agents in the “new work-unit system” but can also be provoked in the transformation of the “new work-unit system.” Originality/value The Communist Party plays a key role in labor relations management in China’s SOEs; however, this role has not been explored in any depth. This study builds a model to reveal the “black box” in which the PBSBs influence the agents’ behaviors and how the agents’ behaviors then influence the workers, and in this way control worker unrest.

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Oberfichtner, Michael, and Claus Schnabel. "The German Model of Industrial Relations: (Where) Does It Still Exist?" Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 239, no. 1 (January 28, 2019): 5–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jbnst-2018-0158.

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Abstract Using data from the representative IAB Establishment Panel, this paper charts changes in the two main pillars of the German IR model over the last 20 years. It shows that collective bargaining coverage and worker representation via works councils have substantially fallen outside the public sector. Less formalized and weaker institutions such as voluntary orientation of uncovered firms towards sectoral agreements and alternative forms of employee representation at the work-place have partly attenuated the overall erosion in coverage. Multivariate analyses indicate that the traditional German IR model (with both collective agreements and works councils) is more likely found in larger and older plants, and it is less likely in plants managed by the owner, in single and foreign-owned plants, in individually-owned firms or partnerships, and in exporting plants. In contrast, more than 60 % of German plants did not exhibit bargaining coverage or orientation or any kind of worker representation in 2015. Such an absence of the main institutional features of the German IR model is mainly found in small and medium-sized plants, in particular in the service sector and in eastern Germany, and its extent is increasing dramatically.

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Cheney, George, Iñaki Santa Cruz, Ana Maria Peredo, and Elías Nazareno. "Worker cooperatives as an organizational alternative: Challenges, achievements and promise in business governance and ownership." Organization 21, no. 5 (August 20, 2014): 591–603. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350508414539784.

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This special issue of Organization treats cooperatives as alternative forms of business and organization, focusing on worker-owned-and-governed forms. In reviewing extant research and considering the seven articles in this special issue, we treat five main challenges that workers’ cooperatives face: (1) the organizational resources, structures, and dynamics allowing for social as well as economic resilience for worker cooperatives; (2) the complex types and roles of leadership in worker cooperatives and related organizational forms; (3) the capacity of and obstacles to the reinvention of democracy within cooperatives; (4) the relationships between cooperatives and organized labor, the state, the community, and the larger financial system; and (5) the pursuit of cooperative values and policies within international market and environmental contexts. The examination of these challenges in relation to the worker cooperatives specifically can inform new projects in employee ownership and governance as well as perhaps assist with democratic organizational transformations in other firms and sectors.

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Barak, Frida, Sofia Livshits, Haana Kaufer, Ruth Netanel, Nava Siegelmann-Danieli, Yasmin Alkalay, and Shulamith Kreitler. "Where to die? That is the question: A study of cancer patients in Israel." Palliative and Supportive Care 13, no. 2 (February 13, 2014): 165–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1478951513000904.

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AbstractObjective:Most patients prefer to die at home, but barely 30% do so. This study examines the variables contributing to dying at home.Methods:The participants were 326 cancer patients, of both genders, with a mean age of 63.25 years, who died from 2000 to 2008 and were treated by the palliative care unit of the Barzilai Hospital. Some 65.7% died at home and 33.4% in a hospital. The data were extracted from patient files. The examined variables were demographic (e.g., age, gender, marital status, ethnic background, number of years in Israel until death), medical (e.g., age at diagnosis, diagnosis, nature of last treatment, patient received nursing care, patient given the care of a social worker, patient had care of a psychologist, family received care of a social worker, patient had a special caregiver), and sociological (e.g., having insurance, having worked in Israel, living alone or with family, living with one's children, living in self-owned or rented house, family members working).Results:The findings indicate that the chances of dying at home are higher if the patient is non-Ashkenazi, the family got social worker care, the patient lived in a self-owned house, the patient lived with his family, the family members worked, and the patient's stay in Israel since immigration was longer. Logistic regression showed that all the predictors together yielded a significant model accounting for 10.9–12.3% of the variance.Significance of results:The findings suggest that dying at home requires maintaining continued care for the patient and family in a community context.

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Akter, Salma. "The Maternity Leave and Cash Benefit Payment System for Readymade Garment (RMG) Sector of Bangladesh." ABC Research Alert 9, no. 1 (January 16, 2021): 09–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.18034/abcra.v9i1.504.

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Maternity leave means the period of paid absence from work. This type of leave is allowed to a mother before and after the birth of a child. Naturally, the term maternity benefit is applied in case of working women. Mostly, it is related to readymade garment (RDM). It indicates the payment made to a woman for giving birth of a child. The duration of maternity leave for female worker in RMG sector of Bangladesh is 4 months (16 weeks) according to Labor Act 2006. The purpose of this study is to show the application of RMG sector’s maternity leave and to assess the level of cash benefit payment for maternity leave. The main purpose of this study is to show the discrimination between two kinds of factories (foreign owned and local owned) about the proper application of rules and Act. The information collected from those who are experienced to take maternity leave and recently take the leave and also who are preparing for the leave. Frequency distribution has been used on the data extracted from female worker who have experience maternity leave and cash benefit payment. The result of this study is that there are two kinds of RMG sectors situations: one is called foreigner owned factory and another one is Bangali factory (local owner).Evidently, 60% get the cash payment with two terms before & after child born and 100% get the maternity leave. So, this paper will discuss about the differences of facilities, job security, cash payment, others opportunities for female in RMG sector.

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Sobering, Katherine. "Teaching and Learning Guide for “Gender In/equality in Worker-owned Businesses”." Sociology Compass 9, no. 5 (April 24, 2015): 412–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/soc4.12251.

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Kim, Taeeun. "Can Worker-owned Platform Cooperatives be an Alternative to Precarious Platform Work?" Journal of Social Science 60, no. 2 (August 31, 2021): 233–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.22418/jss.2021.8.60.2.233.

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Hasegawa, Rei, Shinji Hasegawa, and Takashi Akiyama. "The Inferred Determinants of Employees’ Turnover Intention: A Comparison between Japanese and Foreign-Owned Firms in Japan." International Journal of Business and Management 16, no. 8 (July 12, 2021): 96. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijbm.v16n8p96.

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This study compares the factors that are inferred to directly and indirectly influence the process of determining employees’ turnover intention in Japan. This study focuses on the differences made by firm type, that is, Japanese firms vs. foreign-owned or foreign-affiliated firms. Multiple-group structural equation modeling was attempted by applying factors such as perceived organizational support, the positiveness of a worker, firm-specific skills, organizational commitment, perception of career opportunities within the current firm and in other firms, and turnover intention. It was found that the inferred determinants of turnover intention differed by firm type; specifically, career prospects, either internal or external, do not directly affect turnover intention in Japanese firms. For workers in foreign firms, positivity is significantly higher than that of Japanese firms. Positivity plays a crucial role in both firms; moreover, our study provides supporting evidence of the existence of sub-markets in Japan and shows that the transition of workers from foreign-owned to Japanese firms might be rare.

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Roberts, Lois. "Steve Striffler, In the Shadows of State and Capital: The United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900–1995. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2002. 242 pp. $64.95 cloth; $19.95 paper." International Labor and Working-Class History 65 (April 2004): 216–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0147547904380130.

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Ecuadorianists have long awaited a book on the country's banana industry, and Steve Striffler has made an excellent beginning with this prize-winning research on the United Fruit (UF) company's Tenguel estate. He wanted his study of the workers' struggle for better wages and land to go beyond previous works that tended to focus on leading capitalistic actors. Casting his work in Marxian terms, Striffler finds that worker power—at Tenguel, at other banana producing regions in Ecuador, and across Latin America—played a decisive role in undermining foreign-owned enclaves. Striffler argues that “class struggle” best explains the emergence of the “contract farming” system that transformed agrarian landscapes. Although Ecuadorian worker efforts did not ultimately improve their lives, Striffler finds that struggles at least provided a base for subsequent popular organizations.

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Pham, Ly Thi. "Employment and income of workers in foreign direct investment enterprises in Ho Chi Minh City." Science & Technology Development Journal - Economics - Law and Management 1, Q1 (June 30, 2017): 52–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.32508/stdjelm.v1iq1.428.

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This paper finds that foreign direct investment enterprises (FDIE) contributes the greatest share to GRDP and creates more employment compared with other sectors in HCMC. FDIE also have a higher capital deficit than domestic enterprises, therefore the average income of workers in this sector is significantly higher than that of state-owned and private ones. Within FDIE in HCMC, average income of workers in enterprises with import-export activities was lower than in those without import-export activities in 2011 – 2013. However, the gap was gradually shortened and the opposite is true since 2014. This change is the result of the shift in export commodity structure and from labor-intensive industries to technology- and high skillintensive industries, thereby enhancing the worker income. From the analysis, the paper offers some policy suggestions for the HCMC government in order to boost foreign direct investment attraction in capital- and technology-intensive industries which helps to create more employment of high productivity and increase worker income.

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Gartrell, C. David, and Bernard E. Paille. "Wage Cuts and the Fairness of Pay in a Worker-Owned Plywood Cooperative." Social Psychology Quarterly 60, no. 2 (June 1997): 103. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2787099.

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Ho, Ming-sho. "Beyond Tokenism: The Institutional Conversion of Party-Controlled Labour Unions in Taiwan's State-Owned Enterprises (1951–86)." China Quarterly 212 (December 2012): 1019–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305741012001257.

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AbstractThis article challenges the accepted view that during the period of martial law Taiwan's labour unions were “a useless token.” Focusing on the petroleum and sugar industries, I analyse the incremental process of how party-state control over the labour unions was converted by the workers themselves in Taiwan's national enterprises. In the early 1950s, the KMT's policy of unionizing enterprises was a complementary strategy to reinforce its slow and unsuccessful party-state penetration. With the unions' prominent role in welfare provision, workers were encouraged to develop a sense of stakeholdership. Over the years, labour unions legitimatized the interests of worker members and thus gave rise to an explosion of claim-making activities – what I call “petty bargaining.” By the mid-1980s, labour unions, although still dominated by the KMT, were no longer a Leninist transmission belt, but rather functioned as a de facto complaint centre – an often overlooked precondition for the rise of post-1987 independent labour unionism.

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Vieta, Marcelo. "Learning in Struggle: Argentina’s New Worker Cooperatives as Transformative Learning Organizations." Symposium 69, no. 1 (April 4, 2014): 186–218. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1024212ar.

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SummaryThis article considers Argentina’sempresas recuperadas por sus trabajadores(worker-recuperated enterprises, or ERTs) astransformative learning organizations. ERTs are illustrative of how workers’ conversions of capitalist firms into worker cooperatives—especially conversions emerging from troubled firms and in moments of deep socio-economic crises—transform workers (from managed employees to self-managed workers), work organizations (from capitalist businesses to labour-managed firms), and communities (from depleted to revitalized and self-provisioning localities).Theoretically, the study is grounded in class-struggle, workplace learning, and social action learning approaches. These theoretical perspectives help the study work through how workplace conversions by workers, when converting troubled investor-owned or proprietary firms into worker coops, act as catalysts for contesting workplace exploitation and capitalist crises, while also beginning to move beyond them by forging new social relations of production and exchange. In the case of Argentina’s ERTs, crises in the political economy and micro-economic crises at the point of production during the collapse of the neoliberal model at the turn of the millennium heightened workers’ self-awareness of their situations of exploitation and motivated collective action. As a result, new worker cooperatives were created that also stimulated the social, cultural, and economic renewal of surrounding communities.The study’s research method relies on extended case studies of four diverse ERTs, which included ethnographic observation and in-depth interviews. Observations of daily workflows were conducted, as well as interviews and informal conversations with founding and newer ERT workers. In a more structured portion of the interview protocol, key-informants were asked to reflect on how they had personally changed after being involved in the ERT, and how production practices and involvement with the community had transformed in the process of conversion.The article concludes by outlining how worker, organizational, and community transformations emerge from workers’ processes ofinformal learningandlearning in struggleas they collectively strive to overcome macro- and micro-economic crises and learn to become cooperators. This learning, the study shows, occurs in two ways:intra-cooperativelyvia informal workplace learning, andinter-cooperativelybetween workers from different ERTs and with surrounding communities. The self-management forged by ERTs thus embodies new, cooperative, and community-centered values and practices for these workers that, in turn, sketch out different possibilities for economic and productive life in Argentina.

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Susman, Paul, and Geoffrey Schneider. "Institutional Challenges in the Development of the World’s First Worker-Owned Free Trade Zone." Journal of Economic Issues 42, no. 2 (June 2008): 489–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00213624.2008.11507158.

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Majee, Wilson, and Ann Hoyt. "Building Community Trust Through Cooperatives: A Case Study of a Worker-Owned Homecare Cooperative." Journal of Community Practice 17, no. 4 (November 19, 2009): 444–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10705420903299995.

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Das, Sanghamitra, Kala Krishna, Sergey Lychagin, and Rohini Somanathan. "Back on the Rails: Competition and Productivity in State-Owned Industry." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 5, no. 1 (January 1, 2013): 136–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/app.5.1.136.

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We use a proprietary dataset on the floor-level operations at the largest rail mill in India to study the response of productivity to the threat of entry. Output per active shift increased by 28 percent over 3 years with minimal changes in physical capital and employment. By combining data on the timing of various training programs in the mill with shift-level variation in worker composition, we are able to attribute over half of the higher productivity to training specifically targeted toward improving rail output. Our work suggests high returns to knowledge-enhancing investment in emerging economies. (JEL D22, D24, J24, L23, L32, L61, O14)

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Cai, Yongshun. "The Resistance of Chinese Laid-off Workers in the Reform Period." China Quarterly 170 (June 2002): 327–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009443902000219.

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Since the 1990s, the Chinese government has carried out the reform of state-owned enterprises involving the retrenchment of millions of workers. One outcome of this reform has been labour unrest across the country. This article addresses the following questions about laid-off workers' collective resistance to the reform: why has collective action repeatedly occurred in a still authoritarian regime; and when are the workers more likely to take action? It argues that the workers' action is a result of two types of interaction, one between the workers and the government, and the other among workers themselves. Collective action is likely to occur when the workers expect to succeed. In addition, workers should be able to co-ordinate their actions, which is likely when there are mechanisms that make mobilization among them possible. The article concludes that worker resistance in the 1990s was not enough to stop the reform because several constraints made it difficult for them to take forceful action.

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Li, Huaiyin. "Everyday Power Relations in State Firms in Socialist China: A Reexamination." Modern China 43, no. 3 (October 14, 2016): 288–321. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0097700416671878.

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Drawing on interviews with 97 retirees from different cities, this article reinterprets power relations in state-owned enterprises during the Mao era, centering on an analysis of day-to-day interactions between factory cadres and workers and between the elites and the ordinary among workers. The main issues addressed in this study include how cadres exercised discretion in administrative activities that directly affected workers’ material and nonmaterial interests, such as wage raises, housing allocations, party membership, promotions, and political awards; to what extent workers developed personal dependence on their supervisors; and whether or not workers were split into two antagonistic groups of activists and nonactivists. Without denying the instances of favoritism and personal dependence in cadre-worker relations under certain circumstances, which became increasingly noticeable in the early reform years, this study underscores the constraints of formal and informal institutions on cadres and questions the validity of the clientelist model in explaining micro-political realities on the factory floor in Chinese industry before the reform era.

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Mikami, Kazuhiko. "Market power and the form of enterprise: capitalist firms, worker-owned firms and consumer cooperatives." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 52, no. 4 (December 2003): 533–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0167-2681(03)00089-1.

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Hoffmann, Elizabeth A. "Emotions and Emotional Labor at Worker-Owned Businesses: Deep Acting, Surface Acting, and Genuine Emotions." Sociological Quarterly 57, no. 1 (February 2016): 152–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tsq.12113.

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Doucouliagos, Chris. "Book Review: The Democratic Worker-Owned Firm: a New Model for the East and West." Review of Radical Political Economics 25, no. 3 (September 1993): 143–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/048661349302500321.

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Joy, Annamma, Linda Armano, and Camilo Pena. "Doing Well While Doing Good." Journal of Business Anthropology 9, no. 2 (November 30, 2020): 367–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/jba.v9i2.6131.

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Purpose: To examine the mechanics—social, geographical, and logistical—of producing sustainable fashion apparel as a hybrid company (a company that is part-commercial and part-altruistic; i.e., pursues two goals: profitability and environmental/social sustainability), beholden equally to employees, the worker- owned cooperatives with which the company partners, and environmental and ethical best practices; and to investigate the complex interplay of altruism and entrepreneurship endemic to hybrid organizations.

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González Vega, Alba María del Carmen. "Caracterización de la participación de la familia en la producción de las empresas en México." Journal of Intercultural Management 6, no. 2 (April 1, 2014): 117–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/joim-2014-0015.

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Abstract In the study of family business there is no concrete data on the number of Mexican companies that are family owned, however in reviewing the Economic Census of the National Institute of Statistics and Geography [INEGI] it can be seen that provided staff busy donot receive a formal economic perception from owners, family and other unpaid worker, so that, by linking the concept of family business and the companies that have reported such staff , this study identifies the behavior of the family business considering the contribution to production by sector and hours worked, as well as by gender, concentration of owners, family and other unpaid workers by sector and firm size (micro, small, medium and large companies). This study provides reference the importance of the family business in Mexico’s economic output, setting a mapping behavior from a quantitative approach. It should be noted that this study is part of a doctoral research project in progress over the family business, which is why , it is important to have a reference of the macro context in which the organization is embedded study, presented at the following inquiry.

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