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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Efforts at high-level power sharing between worker representatives and management is hardly a new idea. In West Germany, for instance, worker representatives occupy half the seats of supervisory boards in large corporation. These boards have limited jurisdiction, but are responsible for crucial top-level matters such as the appointment of the company management board. Yet workers are neither involved directly as representatives nor, experience shows, indirectly throughcareful examination of both the issues the board faces and the votes of their representatives. A survey taken in the early 1970s showed that fewer than one third of German workers even knew...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Blue Collars on the Board | 11/9/1979 | See Source »

...German experience--and others--prove that high-level union-management power-sharing cannot by itself change the character of daily working life. Opportunities for high-level worker influence superimposed on a traditional system which forces workers to shun participation even in the lowest level decisions about which they are most knowledgeable, will have little impact on workers' lives or attitudes...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Blue Collars on the Board | 11/9/1979 | See Source »

Casto, an Alabama native, says many men who join the FCA have belonged to the group in high school. That may be one reason why it has taken until this year for the male/female ratio to equalize. Fifty students signed up at registration this year, and members often bring teammates to meetings...

Author: By Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, | Title: The Team Spirit | 11/9/1979 | See Source »

...wasn't going to play high school hall." Horner said before a practice this week. "I thought I was too small, but my father convinced...

Author: By David A. Wilson, | Title: Rich Horner | 11/8/1979 | See Source »

...SUPPORTING couple, Lois (Mary Fedor) and Bill (John Stimpson) were thoroughly miscast. Though she looks, appropriately, like an ex-nightclubber, she couldn't sing more than four notes on key. Him, well, he belongs on a junior varsity high school basketball team doing lay-ups instead of prancing around in tights...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Strange, Dear, But True, Dear | 11/8/1979 | See Source »

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