Narrating past traditions of participation and inclusion: historical perspectives on workplace empowerment

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The authors argue that the history of labor relations plays an important role in future workplace organization and empowerment discourse. Topics include issues of economic, political, and social justice, and implications for further research and theorization.

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Understanding workplace empowerment as inclusion: a historical investigation of the discourse of difference in the United States

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An overview is presented on the saliency of two concepts, discrimination and diversity, as they apply to labor relations in the US since the 1930s. The author posits that inclusion, and its correlation to diversity and discrimination, is key to the emergence of employee empowerment.

Group identity, Social identity

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Back on the way to empowerment: the example of Ordway Tead and industrial democracy

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An overview is presented on the workplace as a locus of social reform, using the works of theorist Ordway Tead within the framework of early 20th-century discourse on democracy and capitalism. Topics include the development, rise, and decline of unions, and how issues such as rights, dignity, and representation still remain valid concerns of the contemporary labor-management relations.

Criticism and interpretation, Tead, Ordway

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