Participation through Joint Consultation

Abstract

Those who are concerned with introducing employee participation into British industry deserve our heartfelt sympathy. It must be like trying to photograph a group of five‐year‐old children whilst crossing a minefield—the subject will never sit still and one toe in the wrong place will cause an explosion. Prospects of legislation on industrial democracy seem to come and go; trade union and employers attitudes appear to fluctuate; new vogues are introduced and vanish without trace. And if this were not enough, everyone seems to be ready to give advice—much of it contradictory. The scene is tangled and confused.