Essays about: "worker owned"

Found 5 essays containing the words worker owned.

  1. 1. Doing Business in the Doughnut: The sustainability of worker co-operatives

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Andreea Preluca; [2021]
    Keywords : Worker Co-operatives; Sustainability; Economic Democracy; Doughnut Economics; Sustainable Business Models; Sustainable Development;

    Abstract : The globally dominant form of business organisation, the Investor-Owned Firm or the Corporation, has been challenged in both academic settings and the wide world for falling short on ensuring environmental and social justice and sustainability. Alternative business models like co-operatives, with a rich though somewhat less known history and presence around the world, might prove a better fit for a thriving world and a sustainable future. READ MORE

  3. 2. NEW Lighting : First step for a Sustainable, and Digital futurein an industrial production factory

    University essay from KTH/Ljusdesign

    Author : Huseyin Emre Sardogan; [2019]
    Keywords : Industrial lighting; smart lighting; sustainable lighting; worker productivity; daylighting;

    Abstract : This thesis project was aimed at designing an energy efficient, intelligent and humancentriclighting solution for one of the steel manufacturing units of Sardogan Industryand Trade. The proposed lighting design will be used in order to reinforce a sustainable,digital and productive work environment in this family-owned business. READ MORE

  4. 3. Unfolding Slavery: a comparative analysis of definitions and positive obligations in the IACtHR case of Hacienda Brasil Verde Worker v. Brazil and the ECtHR case law on slavery and forced labour

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Flávia Cieplinski; [2018]
    Keywords : International Human Rights Law; Inter-American Court of Human Rights; Slavery; Servitude; Forced Labour; Trafficking in Persons; Positive Obligations.; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : In October 2016, the IACtHR issued the judgment of the case of Hacienda Brasil Verde Workers v Brazil. The case concerns the subjection of 85 workers to slavery-like conditions in a private-owned livestock farm located in the north of Brazil. Brasil Verde Workers v. READ MORE

  5. 4. Motivating knowledge workers

    University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Sektionen för management

    Author : Andreas de Haan; Magnus Dahlberg; [2013]
    Keywords : Knowledge worker; intrinsic motivation; extrinsic motivation;

    Abstract : The emergence of a knowledge based economy facilitated by the globalisation has changed the rules of the game for many organisations. The most valuable assets within many organisations are no longer the physical resources but the knowledge capital. READ MORE

  6. 5. Co-management at work In Venezuela A field study of the co-management process in the state owned aluminum plant Alcasa

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Gonzalo Pena Rojas; [2006]
    Keywords : Venezuela; co-management; worker management; ownership; democracy; Political and administrative sciences; Statsvetenskap; förvaltningskunskap; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This essay gives insight to a process of state initiated democratization of the workplace in a third world country. The essay examines the ongoing process of democratization in a state owned aluminum plant in Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela. A process of co-management is taking place in the Aluminum plant of Alcasa. READ MORE