Crossing the Line
Unionized Employee Ownership and Investment Funds
- Publisher
- James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1995
- Category
- Labor, Labor & Industrial Relations, Industrial Health & Safety
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781550284560
- Publish Date
- Jan 1995
- List Price
- $19.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781550284577
- Publish Date
- Jan 1995
- List Price
- $29.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781552771402
- Publish Date
- Feb 2008
- List Price
- $29.95
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Description
The line that divides management and labour is being crossed regularly in Canada, as workers become owners of the companies that employ them. This is the first book to examine this phenomenon.
Workers own a variety of enterprises small and large, often taking on an ownership role when their companies are in financial difficulty. Unions frequently provide the structure for workers to negotiate their ownership claims, but unions are ambivalent about these buyouts. Nevertheless, union-based and government-subsidized investment funds have rapidly growing resources to finance these takeovers.
Crossing the Line is a groundbreaking look at the controversial phenomenon of employee ownership.
About the author
Jack Quarter is a professor and co-director of the Social Economy Centre at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. He is the author of Canada's Social Economy and Crossing the Line. He edited How to Start a Worker's Co-op and co-edited Partners in Enterprise: The Worker Ownership Phenomenon.
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