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The early institutionalists on industrial democracy and union democracy

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Today the term “industrial democracy” has a rather quaint sound, at least in the U.S., and is seldom encountered in either academic or practitioner industrial relations. Likewise, the work of the early institutional economists is infrequently cited by modern IR scholars and even less often read. So, one may ask, why re-plow this intellectual ground when it has so long lain fallow?

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Kaufman, B.E. The early institutionalists on industrial democracy and union democracy. Journal of Labor Research 21, 189–209 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12122-000-1043-y

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