Conference report, comparison of workers self management and recent trends in workers participation in public enterprises in 14 developing countries - evaluates political aspects, economic implications and social implications of workers control over decision making; describes participatory styles in workers cooperatives, works councils, via workers stock ownership, etc.; mentions impact on woman workers and trade unionization. Organigrams.

Conference report, comparison of workers self management and recent trends in workers participation in public enterprises in 14 developing countries - evaluates political aspects, economic implications and social implications of workers control over decision making; describes participatory styles in workers cooperatives, works councils, via workers stock ownership, etc.; mentions impact on woman workers and trade unionization. Organigrams.

Drawing on his background as an economist and a specialist on the Yugoslav system of workers' self-management, Janez Prasnikar analyzes an extraordinary amount of dispersed information on the experience with workers' participation in thirteen developing countries.

"The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.