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Sociology and Industrial Democracy

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The breakdown of fascist regimes in Europe1 after the Second World War put into question authoritarian structures in all action spheres, including the organisation of work. The following intensive social change stimulated the development of studies on industrial organisation, marked by a high cognitive potential and civic sensitivity. Especially those social scientists, who had immigrated to the US and returned to Europe, contributed to the democratisation of authoritarian societies and to the renaissance of sociology (Adorno and Horkheimer, 1950). But it was overshadowed by the Cold War.

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Széll, G. (2004). Sociology and Industrial Democracy. In: Genov, N. (eds) Advances in Sociological Knowledge. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-09215-5_15

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