Response to Carla Orcutt, Ph.D > > Peter Burns SJ wrote: > >The evidence is that worker-controlled enterprises have > >better levels of productivity and motivation _and_ > >greater internal equality of income on average than > >do comparable capitalist firms. > > > Do you have any recent references for this statement? I would very much like > to have some evidence when I am arguing this point from a personal and > ideological conviction. Any data appreciated. Thanks > > Carla Orcutt Ph.D. > Eugene, Oregon > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yes, Carla. A good place to start is: D. Schweickart, AGAINST CAPITALISM, Cambridge University Press, 1993 S reports on a number of studies, some of which I give the initial references below. D. Jones and J. Svejnar <eds.>, PARTICIPATORY AND SELF-MANAGED FIRMS: EVALUATING ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE, Heath, 1982. A. Blinder <ed.>, PAYING FOR PRODUCTIVITY: A LOOK AT THE EVIDENCE, Brookings Institution, 1990. H. Thomas and C. Logan, MONDRAGON: AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS, Allen and Unwin, 1982. W. F. Whyte and K. K. Whyte, MAKING MONDRAGON, Cornell Univ. Press, 1988. R. Jackall and H. Levin <eds.>, WORKER COOPERATIVES IN AMERICA, Univ. of California, 1984. C. Gunn, WORKERS' SELF-MANAGEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES, Cornell Univ. Press, 1984 J. Earle, THE ITALIAN COOPERATIVE MOVEMENT, Allen and Unwin, 1986 S. Estrin, D. Jones, and J. Svejnar, 'The Productivity Effects of Worker Participation in Producer Cooperatives in Western Economies' Journal of Comparative Economics 11 <May 1987>, 40-61. Peter Burns SJ
