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