Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book aims to explain the social conditions that bring about a new milieu insofar as the democratisation of industrial life is concerned and hence of employee participation in industrial decision-making processes by exame the cases of multi-national economic and political organisations, and in particular of the Greek Public Power Corporation. It analyses through the examination of international comparative information, the major processes and characteristics of Capital is industrial restructuring. The book provides a review of the main post-war ideological trends on employee participation, and offers an analysis of some of the main problems that the issue is exposed to. It examines the historico-political background of the Greek employees’ movement toward the democratisation of industrial environments. The book explores the role which integration and deregulation/re-regulation is playing in the structures of organisation and discourse of the Greek Public Power Corporation.