ABSTRACT
Similar to the political democratization of Western societies, workplace democracy is partly shaped by a process of institutionalization of opposition and dissent. This chapter defines justice regimes in work organizations as consisting of procedural and distributive aspects. It discusses the existence of a viable and large population of democratic taxi cooperatives in Haifa, Israel, to researchers' attention. Existing literature presents two main factors leading to the concentration of worker-owned firms within a limited number of sectors, such as the taxi sector. These are the difficulty of raising capital and the problem of monitoring drivers' behavior. The stratification within taxi stations into members and non-members should have an impact on the democratic nature of justice regimes. A member is defined by the bylaws in the nine worker-owned stations as a driver who owns a taxi, possesses a public license to drive it, and owns a share in the station itself.
