ABSTRACT
The validity of propositions was established by an examination of a rich and interesting array of practices and programmes for extending workers' participation and control of decision-making processes. A concern for refashioning the social structure of industry upon the basis of worker or producer co-operatives is undoubtedly an imaginative proposition. There is little doubt, too, that under such conditions a cohesive and harmonious work environment would be facilitated and that flexibility, higher productivity and output would be additional accompaniments. To achieve feasibility, then, a fundamental and far-reaching decentralist campaign would be required involving the participation of both government and the members of existing, successful producer co-operatives. As a consequence, in any highly unionized society, there are many who regard the optimum method of extending the influence of worker representatives over decision-making processes in the firm as being through the expansion of collective bargaining.
