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Write short note on the following from a sociological perspective: Industrial Democracy.

  • UPSC 2012
  • Works and Economic Life

Industrial democracy means extending democratic principles of voice, representation and accountability from the polity to the workplace, so that workers share in decisions that govern their working lives. Sidney Webb and Beatrice Webb popularised the term in Industrial Democracy (1897). For them, trade unions and collective bargaining were the workers' parliament inside industry.

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