Self-Management
Economic Theory and Yugoslav Practice

Offers a comprehensive survey of how workers' self-management has influenced industrial structure and the allocation of resources in Yugoslavia.

Saul Estrin (Author)

9780521143837, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 24 June 2010

278 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.6 cm, 0.36 kg

The subject of self-management - of companies in which the decisions are made by the work force rather than by the managers or owners - has long been of interest both to economists and to a wider audience. In this 1984 book Saul Estrin offers a comprehensive survey of how workers' self-management has influenced industrial structure and the allocation of resources in Yugoslavia, where a system of this type has operated since the 1950s. The book will interest economists concerned with the likely impact of workers' participation as well as specialists in self-management theory and the operation of the Yugoslav economy.

List of tables
Preface
1. Introduction
Part I. Economic Theory: 2. The theory of a self-managed economy
3. The Yugoslav environment
Part II. Yugoslav Practice: 4. Yugoslav industrial structure
5. Some consequences of self-management
6. An explanation of Yugoslav income differentials
7. Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Yugoslav Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Labour economics [KCF]