SOC227H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Worker Cooperative, Rand Formula, Industrial Democracy
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11, 12: college strike issues from the professors they want more job security and academic freedom. Issue of the instructor"s power and power of management of the college. Two additional ways of giving employees more power to reduce worker-mgt conflict. Terms to know industrial democracy grass roots collective producer cooperative conversion collective bargaining collective agreement zero sum game mutual gains bargaining iron law of oligarchy. Rand formula union density free-rider problem social conflict social power bargaining power collective action dependence mobilization: motivated by compensation. Note: performance, efficiency, all important to managers and causes conflicts with employees, the conflict is both economic (holiday pay, raises, etc. ) and non-economic (the strike of college professors, more control and power) Note: social power is relational: capacity to get another party to alter its behaviour in a way that benefits you social power, specific to what the relationship is between two people, social power.
