industrial democracy

British  

noun

1. control of an organization by the people who work for it, esp by workers holding positions on its board of directors

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Example Sentences

With the guidance of Sidney Hillman, an ally of President Roosevelt, the fund moved unions away from their confrontational past toward a model of “industrial democracy” that recognized the common interests of business and labor.

From The Wall Street Journal

Organized labor began its long, slow decline as it receded from its most radical claims to industrial democracy.

From Slate

Similarly, British minimum wage supporters Sidney and Beatrice Webb wrote in “Industrial Democracy,” “There are races who, like the African negro, have no assignable minimum, but a very low maximum; they will work, that is, for indefinitely low wages.”

From Washington Post

I am reminded, by all of this, of John Dewey, the American philosopher and psychologist who devoted his long career to the explication of life in a modern industrial democracy and its implications for a wide range of social and political activity.

From New York Times

Mill owner Julian Carr went so far as to implement at his Durham Hosiery Mills a system of “industrial democracy” based on the U.S. federal government.

From Literature