industrial democracy

noun

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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The first attempt in modern times to accomplish the social revolution and set up industrial democracy was in the Paris Commune.

Discusses various programs for the change from industrial autocracy to industrial democracy.

The trade unionists termed the new fashioned expressions of industrial democracy "company unions."

One phase of the "labor personnel" work was a rather wide experimentation with "industrial democracy" plans.

Organized labor, therefore, though a minority of the whole, should establish "industrial democracy" by force.

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