Democracy as 'Organizational Divorce' and How the Postmodern Democracy is Stifled by Unity and Majority
- 1 May 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Economic and Industrial Democracy
- Vol. 12 (2) , 173-186
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831x91122003
Abstract
Workplace democracy is brought up for discussion by the modern project and the postmodern condition. The modern project is represented by three fictitious eye-witnesses, who all seem to have succumbed to a modern repressive tolerance. Only one 'postmodern eye-witness' protests against the description of the democratic condition and challenges the three modernists by emphasizing the necessity of paradoxes and ruptures to acquire liberty. One facet of the liberating dialogue suggested by the postmodernist is to deconstruct the social system through divorce.Keywords
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