The Democratic Worker-Owned Firm (Routledge Revivals): A New Model for the East and West - Hardcover

Ellerman, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138892645 ISBN 13: 9781138892644

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

When this book was first published in 1990, there were massive economic changes in the East and significant economic challenges to the West. This critical analysis of democratic theory discusses the principles and forces that push both socialist and capitalist economies toward a common ground of workplace democratization.

This book is a comprehensive approach to the theory and practice of the "Democratic firm" – from philosophical first principles to legal theory and finally to some of the details of financial structure. The argument for economic democracy supports private property, free markets and entrepreneurship for instance, but fundamentally it replaces the employer/employee relationship with democratic membership in the firm.

For students, teachers, policy makers and others interested in the application of democracy to the workplace, this book will serve as a manifesto and a standard reference on the topic.

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David Ellerman

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138892645
• ISBN 13: 9781138892644
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 238