By Hector Puig Arvelo

The study was designed to check the results obtained by Trier In teating eight hypotheses regarding job satiafaction among Michigan Industrial workers with the results obtained with Italian and Puerto Roan Industrial workers. The Itallan and Spanish translations of Trier's questionnaire were administered to 196 Italians and to 398 Puerto Ricans. The primary method of analysis coneiated of matching pairs of workers on all but one pertinent variable and computing the differences in satisfaction due to the variable. The variables included occupational status, income, company, age, sex, education, and father's occupational status. Questione on a Iikert type scale were aleo ueed to measure the worker's conception of how his family, friends, and neighbors perceive his job.

Phd. Dissertation. Michigan State University, 1959. 99p.

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By John F. Witte

FROM THE PREFACE: “This book is about industrial democracy in an American corporation. Throughout I will be referring to the term democracy in a somewhat extreme form in relation to the current usage of the word in American theories of organization. I have not considered workers' participation as merely a progressive management technique or a vague approach to a more "humanized" work place. Although I am not condemning these innovations for the ends they seek, it is nevertheless the case that most American experiments in this vein have taken advantage of the symbolic value of democracy* while not applying the basic principles of democ- racy as it is conceived in political theory.”

Chicago. University of Chicago Press. 1980. 220p.

Edited by G. David Garson and Michael P. Smith

This issue of Administration and Society focuses on the theme, "Organizational Democracy- Participation and Self-Management." Theoretical issues are first set forth by Dr. Carole Pateman, who elaborates on arguments found in her work, Participation and Demo- cratic Theory (Cambridge University Press, 1970). Illustrations of important developments in self-management experiments are treated by Andrew Zimbalist ni a comparison of Cuba and Chile, while the new Peruvian laws on social property are discussed by Covarrubias and Vanek. These themes are then discussed with regard to the United States in an analytic survey by Michael Brower. The outlines of self-management as an economic program and as a political issue are treated in concluding essays by a Cornell group headed by Jaroslav Vanek and by the editors of this special issue.

London. Sage. 1976. 131p. CONTAINS MARK-UP

By Arthur Pearl And Frank Riessman

From the Preface: “The current trend in most of the human service areas, such as social work and psychiatry, is for an increasingratio of time to be spent on consultation, supervision, teaching, and a decreasing proportion of time in direct service. Thus, there is considerable need for service-orientated people and we believe that the indigenous low-income nonprofessional can fill this important vacuum. In this sense, the term "non- professional" is limited because it does not specify the nature of the tasks to be performed; the usefulness of the term, however, lies in calling attention to certain distinctions between a professional orientation and the performance of various tasks by people whosetraining si less inclusive than that of professionals, but who may have specific contribu- tions to make in the performance of tasks related to the helping professions. This book is principally concerned with one type of nonprofessional, namely the indigenous nonprofes- sional working in economically disadvantaged communities.”

NY. The Free Press. 1965. 275p. CONTAINS MARK-UP

By Daniel Zwerdling

From the cover: "Of all the issues inspired by the political ferment of the 1960s, few have shown as much staying power as that cluster of concerns under the head- ing 'quality of working life! As the 1960s boom has been replaced by the 1970s recession, the discussion surrounding worker ownership and self-management has, fi anything, increased. What began with vague references to 'blue-collar blues' and 'alienation in the work-place' has evolved into the practical consideration of concrete alternatives. Now, Daniel Zwerdling has provided a useful overview of recent experi- ments in the reorganization of work in both the United States and Europe. "Taking as his theme the assertion that in a society which is founded on the ideals of democracy, there is no democracy at work' Zwerdling catalogues a series of case studies, each a recent attempt to encourage more worker participation in the processes of industrial enterprises....”

NY. Harper Colophon Books. Harper & Row, Publishers. 1978. 202p. CONTAINS MARK-UP.

Edited by Josip Obradovié and William N. Dunn

From the Preface: In constructing a volumeofcollected contributions to theory and research on workers' self-management in Yugoslavia, the authors' primary aim is to introduce English-speaking audiences to a large and informative body of empirical studies available in Yugoslav languages. We wish at the same time to emphasize the practical interdependence and complementarity of empirical and theoretical studies of participation, industrial democracy, and self-management. In stressing the importance of these contributions to the theory and practice of self-management, both in Yugoslavia and other countries, we eventually chose the concept of organizational power as a means to order, link, and interpret the selections in this volume. We hope we have created a product that is reasonably coherent, problem-specific, and grounded in empirical research.

University of Pittsburgh. University Center for International Studies. 1978. 457p. CONTAINS MARK-UP