Word: ahlstrom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ahlstrom, Editor of the Swedish Metal-Workers Union Newspaper, came to Harvard before Christmas during a three-week trip to this country. He delivered a speech at the Kennedy School of Government, part of which is excerpted below...
...involved in many experiments in "industrial democracy" on the shop-floor during the past decade. These include the famous experiments with both Saab-Scania and Volvo which aimed to abolish the assembly line in favor of group assembly in what have come to be known as "autonomous groups." However, Ahlstrom says that in almost all these experiments, "the companies kept control. I don't know of a single experiment that was initiated by the companies that really changed the work organization in such a way that the workers experienced a true change and so that the organization of the whole...
...Below, Ahlstrom describes a recent experiment that has gone beyond its Swedish predecessors and the role of shop-floor democracy within what he calls a "truly democratic society...