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  • 7 - “Industrial Democracy” in the United States, Past and Present

  • from Part II - History, Politics, and Law
  • Edited by Angela B. Cornell, Cornell University, New York, Mark Barenberg, Columbia University, New York
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Labor and Democracy
    Published online:
    25 January 2022
    Print publication:
    20 January 2022, pp 117-126

  • Summary

    This chapter first scans the historical context of the “labor question” in the United States and the radically diverse interpretations and experimentation with “industrial democracy,” widely seen as the answer.Second, it outlines how industrial democracy ultimately came to have meaning through collective bargaining, with the enactment of the 1935 National Labor Relations Act, and how optimism about the law’s promise and achievements turned into disenchantment. Third, the essay sketches the glimmerings of industrial democracy’s revival, with the labor question’s reemergence.Creative experimentation is underway, older notions are being reimagined, collective action is on the rise, and the threat posed by worker’s diminished bargaining power is a matter of public debate.