Democracy at Work – Contract, Status and Post–Industrial Justice Dukes Hardback

Democracy at WorkContract, Status and Post-Industrial Justice\nAuthor(s): Ruth Dukes, Wolfgang Streeck\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Polity Press\nISBN-13: 9781509548989, 978-1509548989\nSynopsis\nIn the countries of the global North, workplace democracy may be thought of as a thing of the past. Increasingly, working relations are regulated primarily by contract; workforces are fissured and fragmented. What are the consequences of this? How should we respond? Ruth Dukes and Wolfgang Streeck argue that the time is ripe to restate the principles of industrial democracy and citizenship for the post-industrial era. Considering developments within political economy, employment relations and labour law since the postwar decades, they trace the rise of globalization and the dualization of labour markets the emergence of a core and periphery of workers and the progressive insulation of working relations from democratic governance. What the.