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For John Stuart Mill, employee ownership (though he used rather different language) carried with it the near certain promise of improved business performance. 'It is scarcely possible', he wrote, 'to rate too highly this material benefit ... ' But he went on: ' ... which yet is nothing com­pared with the moral revolution in society that would accompany it: the healing of the standing feud between capital and labour; the transformation of human life from a conflict of classes ... to a friendly rivalry in pursuit of a common good to all.' The chief aim of Jobs and Fairness is to bring together evidence about the validity of the first hypothesis: about the material benefits which employee ownership may be expected to bring. Accordingly, after an extended discussion of theoretical and background questions, it consists of a series of case studies of actual employee-owned businesses. Though most are drawn from the UK and the US, there are examples from four countries in Continental Wes­tern Europe - France, Germany, Italy and Spain. The two Italian examples are from that same small town of Imola where Mill's second hypothesis is presently being tested, with at least promising results. Th

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Author

Robert Oakeshott

Publisher

Michael Russell Publishing Ltd

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780859552561

Category

nonfiction

Updated

2026-03-25