ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the emergence of three main typologies ranging from evolutionary to transgrettory forms of employee participation. It focuses employee participation which social-democratic revolutionary socialist and neo-Marxist/existentialist political thoughts have contributed during the post-war period. As Cornelius Castoriadis had once argued, democracy at work and democratic organisation was always seen by post-war communists and Trotskyists as a ‘right which blows out of the crater like a thunder’ and seeks the establishment of a new order of social activity. From the philosophical plane to the political and economic, the ideological context of employees’ participation has always remained complex and variegated in accordance with the various strategies that different political movements have pursued. In essence the political control of the theme of employees’ participation has always remained closely related to a general critique of the relationship between man and society and his ability to change and shape the nature and characteristics of the ruling social environment.
