Conference paper on the need for and objectives of an international research project on workers self management and workers participation as a factor of social change and economic development in developing countries - outlines research method and recent activities. Conference held in The Hague 1981 may 5 to 13.

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.