West German co-determination law mandated worker parity on supervisory boards.

Evidence

The Workers’ Participation Law gave equal representation on the board of directors to representatives of the workers and to representatives of the owners of the company’s capital, and meant that a workers’ representative would become an executive director. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 506

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the Workers’ Participation Law mechanism the surrounding dispute turns on.
• XREF: connects to: West Germany’s Workers’ Participation Law gave labor equal board representation — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2056; Defensive workers’ institutions can be co-opted to enforce subordination. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 905; German unions demanded co-determination beyond the enterprise, at sector and macro levels — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 960 (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: West Germany’s Workers’ Participation Law gave labor equal board representation — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2056; Defensive workers’ institutions can be co-opted to enforce subordination. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 905; German unions demanded co-determination beyond the enterprise, at sector and macro levels — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 960 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• West Germany’s Workers’ Participation Law gave labor equal board representation #corroborates (0.97) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2056
• Capitalist rationalization attempts to co-opt worker militancy through co-operative management schemes #complicates (0.73)
• Defensive workers’ institutions can be co-opted to enforce subordination. #complicates (0.72) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 905
• Many West German workers saw employer-employee relations as irreconcilable polarity. #complicates (0.71) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2101
• Workers’ self-governance sought to abolish the wage relationship and production for profit #complicates (0.71) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 186