Futures for work: A book of original readings

183 Pages·1979·3.377 MB·English

by  Jaap Boersma, Kenneth E. Boulding, Bertrand de Jouvenel, William R. Dill, Branko Horvat, John Hughes, Sven Lindqvist, Jan Tinbergen, Jef A. P. Van Hoof (auth.), Geert Hofstede (eds.)

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Futures for work
Futures for work
A book of original readings
Published for the centennial of the first works council in the Netherlands: Nederlandsche
Gist-en Spiritusfabriek N.V., 1 November 1878 - Gist-Brocades N.V., 1 November 1978.
by Jaap Boersma, Kenneth E. Boulding, Bertrand de Jouvenel,
William R. Dill, Branko Horvat, John Hughes, Sven Lindqvist,
Jan Tinbergen and Jef A. P. Van Hoof.
Edited and introduced by Geert Hofstede
European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management, Brussels, Belgium
Springer-Science+Business Media, B. V. 1979
ISBN 978-94-017-1647-5 ISBN 978-94-017-1645-1 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-1645-1
© 1979 by Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
Originally published by Martinus Nijhoff Pub1ishers B.V., The Hague in 1979
Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1s t edition 1979
© 1979 Chapter 10 by Sven Lindqvist
No part ofthis book may be reproduced in any form by print, photoprint, microfilm or any othe
means, without written permission from the copyrightholders.
Contents
Foreword . . . VII
List of contributors IX
Introduction: from 1878 to 2028. 1
I. Works councils in the Netherlands, past and present ,
1. The history of a socia1 invention . . . . 11
Geert Hofstede
2. Works counci1s in the Netherlands in 1978 31
Jef A. P. van Hoof
11. Ideas for the future of work
3. Work and va1ues in the next fifty years 55
Jaap Boersma
4. Work and well-being - desires for the future 67
Jan Tinbergen
5. Dilemmas ofthe 1abour bargain in the world ofthe future 81
Kenneth E. Bou/ding
6. Man and his needs . 99
Bertrand de Jouvenel
7. The future ofwork. . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
John Hughes
VI CONTENTS
8. Towards self-governing socialism . . 127
Branko Horvat
9. Issues and alternatives for industrial democracy . 139
William R. Dill
10. A future in retrospect . 153
Sven Lindqvist
Index of subjects . 169
Index of names 173
Foreword
One hundred years ago, on the first of November 1878, the first,
partly elected, workers representation within a Dutch industrial
concern was installed. This took place at the Nederlandsche Gist-en
Spiritusjabriek which is now known, since amalgamating in 1967
with Brocades, Stheeman & Pharmacia, as Gist-Brocades. The
centennial of workers representation occurs at a time in which the
debate about the relationship between man and his work has
reached a new height. The role of social pioneer that, in the history
of industry, fell to this concern, now creates for us a twofold obli
gation:
In the first instance to give due honour, after 100 years, to the
pioneer ofthose days, J. C. Van Marken and to commemorate hirn
in contemporary fashion: the first chapter of this book, published
on the occasion ofthe centennial, is devoted to the life and work of
our illustrious precursor.
Secondly we fee! that it is in the spirit of pioneership to look
forward and thereby direct ourselves primarily to the future of
work. To this end, the European Institute for Advanced Studies in
Management in Brussels formulated some pertinent questions
which were then laid before a number of prominent writers and
social thinkers in Holland and elsewhere. This book contains their
responses.
VIII FOREWORD
We did not ask the authors to look into teacups or to tell the future
from the stars. What is brought forward are thoughts and the
fathers of thoughts: wishes, in the area of labour relations and
individual and social prosperity. Our personal wish is that these
centennial essays may find a wide audience and this forms the
reason why there is an English, as weH as a Dutch edition of the
book.
DeIft, Summer 1978 E. W. ter Horst, Mech. Eng.
Chairman, Board of Management and
Central Works Council,
Gist-Brocades N.V.
Oldest known photograph of a meeting of De Kern.
Local works council, Gist-Brocades N.V., Delft.