The Democratic Worker-Owned Firm

A New Model for the East and West

Bibliographic Data

ID19925469
AuthorsDavid Ellerman (0000-0002-5718-618X, corresponding author)
Year2021
Publication date2021-04-14
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueDemocratic Worker-Owned Firm (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315709062
OpenAlexW4205364109
Open LibraryOL40002199M
ISBN9781315709062
LanguageEN
Citations received10

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

Argument (complex analysis) · Democracy · Democratic Theory · Democratization · Economic system · Economics · Entrepreneurship · Free market · Law and economics · Manifesto · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Political Economy and Marxism · Actionnariat du personnel · Business & Economics · Comparative economics · Development · Economic conditions · Economic development · Économie politique comparée · Employee ownership · Employee participation · Management · Theory

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