Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership: Volume 3 Issue 1

The performance of consumers' cooperatives in America

John Pencavel

The purpose is to evaluate the performance of consumers' cooperatives in the United States over the last 100 years. This evaluation is based on an overlooked series of surveys…

Works councils and performance appraisals

Christian Grund, Dirk Sliwka, Krystina Titz

We analyze the role of works councils for the use of performance appraisals (PA). We distinguish between the incidence of PA systems as intended by the firm and their actual…

Participatory legal forms for public enterprises. How a group of affiliated public service organisations can help to overcome legal and institutional obstacles

Alexander J. Wulf

In some political and economic situations, it may be desirable to have a company that operates with a legal structure that is midway between the two extreme poles of the private…

Countering the pedagogic hegemony of neo-liberalism in the workplace: a Freirean analysis of the contribution of union-led learning to enhanced worker participation in the UK

Tony Bennett

The purpose of this paper is to critically assess the degree to which current union learning strategy and practice in the UK can become a catalyst for greater activism and…