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Business & Economics Labor

Crossing the Line

Unionized Employee Ownership and Investment Funds

by (author) Jack Quarter

Publisher
James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
Initial publish date
Jan 1995
Category
Labor, Labor & Industrial Relations, Industrial Health & Safety
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550284560
    Publish Date
    Jan 1995
    List Price
    $19.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781550284577
    Publish Date
    Jan 1995
    List Price
    $29.95
  • 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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