workplace democracy concepts:

self-manage?
self-organize
worker co-operative
worker control?
worker-owned factory?

In Brazil? a limited form of workplace democracy was instituted by Ricardo Semler? at his firm Semco? - as documented in his book "Maverick". It was widely praised by Nigel Nicholson? of the London School of Business? in a Harvard Business Review? article "How Hardwired is Human Behavior?".

In Quebec...

In Argentina? the National Movement for Recovered Factories? has also performed worker expropration?: to seize? abandoned or closed factories whose owners received public subsidies or loans.

They have succeeded.

"What we've learned is, that in a business,
participatory democracy is more efficient.
Because if you vote often, you get used to
winning, but you also get used to losing.
You learn to accept the decision of the majority."
- Zanon Ceramics? factory worker

"For us, the workers, accounting is easy. We don't
know why it's so hard for the bosses: to pay bills,
to pay salaries. For us it's simple: we add, we
subtract....maybe we can run the country this way."
- Brukman? factory worker