Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Social Democratic Party by braking the rate of pension increases and halting the planning of new ambitious welfare schemes, like a costly increase in health benefits. To stop a headlong plunge into bankruptcy, Portugal's Socialist Premier Mario Scares has been uncomfortably forced to restore to private ownership farms confiscated after the 1974 revolution...
States ruled by social democrats are generally mixed economies, combining elements of free-enterprise competition with state ownership or direction of key industries. Some, most notably West Germany, are basically capitalist. Firmly rooted in the West, such social democracies as Norway and West Germany have more in common with the capitalist U.S. than has the U.S. with, say, capitalist states like Ecuador or the Ivory Coast...
...government's most ambitious attempt to restructure the economy while permitting private ownership has been to give workers a voice in corporate management. A 1972 scheme for "industrial democracy" requires all firms with more than 200 employees to give worker representatives one-third of the votes in the new "corporate assemblies" that replaced the traditional shareholders' meeting. Another idea being contemplated by the Labor Party is the "Gjest Baardsen fund," named after the legendary Norwegian version of Robin Hood. Like its name sake, the scheme would take money from successful companies and give it to unprofitable ones...
Whyte discussed a congressional bill which he helped draft, the Volunteer Employee Ownership Act. The bill, if approved, will provide the Economic Development Agency (EDA) with $1 million a year to furnish technical and financial assistance to employees, and to study different forms of employee-owned factories...
...view the law as a basis for education, especially in terms of forms of ownership and control," Whyte said...