Challenging the degeneration thesis: the role of democracy in worker cooperatives?

Langmead, Kiri (2017) Challenging the degeneration thesis: the role of democracy in worker cooperatives? Journal of Entrpreneurial and Organizational Diversity, 5 (1). pp. 79-98. ISSN 2281-8642

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Abstract

This paper uses data collected through written narratives, focus groups and participant observation in three small UK worker cooperatives to investigate the role of democracy in maintaining cooperatives’ dual social-economic characteristic and resisting degeneration. More specifically, it adds to limited empirical literature countering the degeneration thesis by arguing that ongoing processes of individual-collective alignment, understood as central to the practice of democracy, help cooperatives to: balance varying and conflicting needs and aims; challenge the assumption underpinning the degeneration thesis; and transform degenerative “risks” into creative and productive spaces where new meanings and practices can be formed.

Item Type: Article
RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/844179
Keywords: Worker Cooperative, Degeneration thesis, Democracy, Alternative economy, Social-economic Characteristic, Dual Characteristic, Workplace democracy, Cooperative
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Geography
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.5947/jeod.2016.005
Depositing User: Langmead, Kiri
Date Deposited: 04 Apr 2017 12:22
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 18:33
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/41739

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