democras;y' is often used to describe situations of pseudo-partippation or even
merely to indicate that a friendly atmosphere exists. As has been pointed
out in a criticism of the use of the term 'democracy' in the original Lewin
experiments, the assumption was that democracy would 'result naturally
from a person-to-person feeling in tolerant and generous community
living' .2 It is also frequently claimed that industrial democracy already
exists in most industrialised Western countries. Perhaps the best known
expression of this view is that of H. A. Clegg, one of the foremost British