Workers, Participation, and Democracy: Internal Politics in the British Union Movement

by Joel D. Wolfe

In this study of the British labor movement, Joel Wolfe asks whether participatory democracy is possible in modern large-scale union and party organizations and how rank and file members can exercise control of delegates in the face of constraints imposed by formal bureaucratic structures at all levels. In addressing these questions he formulates a theory of participatory democracy that has broad practical application to contemporary democratic practice...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313246920
• ISBN13: 9780313246920
• Release Date: November 1985
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"