Illustrations
Acknowledgments
PART I. INTRODUCTION
Introduction
Weirton: The Place and Its People
An Ethnography of Class, Community, and Worker Ownership
1. Worker Ownership and Class in America
Worker Ownership
Employee Participation
Paternalism and Class
Class and Class Consciousness
Outline of Chapters
PART II. HISTORICAL ANTECEDENTS
2. Forced Choices I: Company Town
The Antecedents of Paternalism: 1909-1933
The Challenge: 1933-1951
Quiescence: 1951-1982
3. Forced Choices II: "Buy It or Lose It"
One Side of Paternalism's Legacy
Divided Loyalties
"Business is Business, Morals is Morals"
The Limits of Dissent
The Final Deal
PART III. WORKERS BY DAY
4. Forced Choices III: Employee Participation
Participation by Decree
The Structure of Employee Participation
Ideology and Employee Participation
Summary
5. A Fragile Trust: The Normative Order of Employee Participation
Facilitators as Industrial Therapists
Workers and Employee Participation
Internal Communications: Public Relations at Work
PART IV. OWNERS BY NIGHT
6. Class and Worker Ownership
Worker Ownership and the "Equity solution"
Owners by Night ...
...Workers at Heart
7. The Moral Economy of Worker Ownership
The Value of Labor
Property Rights
Community, Nepotism, and Local Control
Summary
8. The Struggle for Control
A Changing of the Guard
Confrontation
Two Years Later: The Struggle Continues
9. Conclusion
The Lessons of Worker Ownership and Participation at Weirton Steel
Class, Community, and Worker Ownership
Notes
Bibliography
Index
