Self-Management Economic Theory and Yugoslav Practice [Paperback]

Offers a comprehensive survey of how workers' self-management has influenced industrial structure and the allocation of resources in Yugoslavia.In this 1984 book Saul Estrin offers a comprehensive survey of how workers self-management has influenced industrial structure and the allocation of resources in Yugoslavia. The book will interest economists concerned with the likely impact of workers participation and specialists in self-management theory and the operation of the Yugoslav economy.In this 1984 book Saul Estrin offers a comprehensive survey of how workers self-management has influenced industrial structure and the allocation of resources in Yugoslavia. The book will interest economists concerned with the likely impact of workers participation and specialists in self-management theory and the operation of the Yugoslav economy.The subject of self-management - of companies in which the decisions are made by the work force rather than by the managers or owners - has long been of interest both to economists and to a wider audience. In this 1984 book Saul Estrin offers a comprehensive survey of how workers' self-management has influenced industrial structure and the allocation of resources in Yugoslavia, where a system of this type has operated since the 1950s. The book will interest economists concerned with the likely impact of workers' participation as well as specialists in self-management theory and the operation of the Yugoslav economy.List of tables; Preface; 1. Introduction; Part I. Economic Theory: 2. The theory of a self-managed economy; 3. The Yugoslav environment; Part II. Yugoslav Practice: 4. Yugoslav industrial structure; 5. Some consequences of self-management; 6. An explanation of Yugoslav income differentials; 7. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Yugoslav Bibliography; Index.