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Special Section Democracy 2.0

Darcy K. Leach, Elizabeth A. Hoffmann, Joan S. M. Meyers, Joyce Rothschild, Katherine K. Chen, Katherine Sobering, Steven Peter Vallas | December, 2016

This special section of The Sociological Quarterly, edited by Joyce Rothschild includes the following articles: The Logic of a Co-Operative Economy and Democracy 2.0: Recovering the Possibilities for Autonomy, Creativity, Solidarity and Common Purpose by Joyce Rothschild When Freedom is Not an Endless Meeting: A New Look at Efficiency in Consensus-Based Decision-Making by Darcy K. Leach “Plan … Read More

Diversity Regimes in Worker Cooperatives: Workplace Inequality Under Conditions of Worker Control

Joan S. M. Meyers, Steven Peter Vallas | January, 2016

Two major shifts in contemporary work organizations—“employee participation” and “diversity management”—have typically been studied in isolation from one another. Building on theoretical work by Acker (2006a,b), we ask how the interaction of these two constructs has affected the pursuit of workplace democracy at two worker cooperatives in Northern California. Using qualitative methods, we find that … Read More