Although I would hesitate to classify these as history of thought, a  
few more references are:

Paul Blumberg, Industrial Democracy - The Sociology of Participation,  
1969
David Jenkings, Job Power - Blue and White Collar Democracy, 1973
Harold Sheppard and Neal Herrick, Where Have All the Robots Gone?  
Worker Dissatisfaction in the '70s, 1972
Work in America, Report of a Special Task Force to the Secretary of  
Health, Education and Welfare, MIT Press, 1973

Avi Cohen