books by William Foote Whyte (international cooperative reflections)

books by William Foote Whyte

books:

Making Mondragon: The growth and dynamics of the worker cooperative complex (Cornell international industrial ...

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William Foote Whyte

ILR Press, 1988

A valuable contribution to an under-studied area
The Mondragon experiment in cooperative enterprise is relatively little known outside Spain it seems. The fact that such an enterprise was able to emerge within Franco's Spain and flourish as a worker-owned cooperative, despite the many challenges it has faced, is an enormous achievement that begs a great deal more scholarly investigation than it has received until now. This book gives a ...

Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum

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William Foote Whyte

Univ of Chicago Press, 1955

ground breaking work
I read this book eight years ago on rainy Saturday--I was a student at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, and I decided to pass the afternoon in the Center's library. I picked this volume off the shelves because the title sounded interesting. At the time, I did not realize that this book is a classic in the field of social science. When it was published in the 1940s, it was one of ...

Creative Problem Solving in the Field: Reflections on a Career
William Foote Whyte

AltaMira Press, 1997

From the street corners of the North End of Boston to the Basque regions of Spain, renowned sociologist William Foote Whyte has been a pioneer in developing methods and theories that have changed and expanded the way that we look at social structures and the individuals within them. Now, Whyte passes on his experience and knowledge with a look at problems he encountered in the field, and how he was able to overcome them. This book is both a ...

Die Street Corner Society. Die Sozialstruktur eines Italienerviertels.
William Foote Whyte, Peter Atteslander

Gruyter, 1996

Industrial Democracy: Strategies for Community Revitalization (SAGE Focus Editions)
Warner P. Woodworth, Christopher Meek, ...

Sage Publications, Inc, 1985

Industrial Democracy is one of the first attempts to explain a newly developed field: the theory and practice of countering industrial decline and subsequent deterioration of the quality of community life. The contributors give an overview of the problem of economic dislocation, and explore the social responsiblity of corporations towards surrounding communities.