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Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Industrial relations & safety > Industrial relations > General
With the globalization and growth of world economic markets, the
importance of a strong workforce has become paramount to business
success. Organizations cannot achieve this global reach unless they
intend to tackle issues regarding equality in the workplace. In a
time when sustainability and corporate responsibility have become
the norm, organizations value the creation of an egalitarian
workplace. Macro and Micro-Level Issues Surrounding Women in the
Workforce: Emerging Research and Opportunities is a critical
scholarly resource that voices issues and challenges faced by women
and provides guidance for organizations in developing strategic
initiatives to involve women in decision-making processes and
improve women's wellbeing in the workplace. The book explores macro
(socio-economic) and micro-level (organizational) issues in
relation to women's positions at work including occupational
segregation, gender pay gap, diversity management, and
socio-cultural roles attached to women. It is essential for
executives, managers, executive board members, human resources
professionals, policymakers, business practitioners, academicians,
researchers, corporate professionals, and students.
Anton Pannekoek discusses the viability of workers' councils as an
effective means of administrating a socialist society, as
contrasted to the centralized doctrines of state communism or state
capitalism. Conceived as an alternative way to establish and
sustain socialism, the workers councils have so far never been
successfully established at a national scale. Part of the problem
was disagreements among revolutionaries about their size and
responsibilities; while Lenin supported the notion during the
revolutionary period, the councils were phased out in favor of a
centralized state, rather than diffused through the strata of
society. Pannekoek draws on history for his ideas, noting the
deficiencies of previous revolutions and the major objectives a
future revolution should hold. The various tasks a state of
worker's councils must accomplish, and the enemies that must be
overcome - notably fascists, bourgeois elements and big business -
are listed.
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