THE CONCEPT of worker participation in management is fraught with difficulties, semantic, political and technical. This paper is intended to clarify some of the varied approaches to the topic.
The semantic problem is not merely that, for the vocabulary used may contain an indication of the intent of the author. There is a great deal of interchangeability between the terms worker participation and industrial democracy though I think that an important and fundamental distinction can be made between them, and many of the other terms can be subsumed under these headings.
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R. Kilroy-Silk , "Contemporary Theories of Industrial Democracy ", Political Quarterly, 1970, pp. 169-81.
