Our Daily Work / Our Daily Lives brown bag series: “Codetermination vs. Managerialism: Intellectuals, Workers, and Democracy in 1950s West Germany” Sean Forner
Wednesday, February 26
Green Room, MSU Library
12:00 – 1:15 EST
And available as an online webinar at https://msu.zoom.us/j/97496813137 / password odwodl
West Germany is widely known for a distinctive model of industrial relations: codetermination, or workers’ right to participate in firms’ economic affairs. This talk explores the convergence between the unions’ early, radical “struggle for codetermination” and intellectual diagnoses of the broader threat of “managerialism,” which generated a period of remarkable contestation over the relation of democracy at work to democracy writ large.