ABSTRACT
The renewed focus in recent years on employee involvement committees in nonunion workplaces reflects the convergence of several trends that became acutely felt and widely reported in the early 1990s: the declining portion of the union-represented workforce; the ascendance of a Republican Congress eager to undermine the role of organized labor further; widespread worker dissatisfaction with traditionally hierarchical workplace structures; and American business’s realization that restructuring workplace relationships could increase productivity and profitability.
