Routinizing an Ideal: Democracy and Participation in Union Meetings

Early in June 1980, as Unikon was experiencing both the disorder of moving to their new company and the dissonance of their internal postvictory struggles, one of the Unikon leaders took me on my first visit to Universal Shoes, where I would begin working in July. We met at the train station nearest the company and walked from there. That walk, the area we passed through, and the physical structures and spaces of the Universal factory confirmed at every turn descriptions I had heard about them from Unikon workers. The images were very striking. Having come to Universal from Unikon