Case for Economic Democracy

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

Av Andrew Cumbers

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The idea that the people have a right to shape political decisions through democratic means is widely accepted. The same cannot be said of the decisions that impact on our everyday economic life in the workplace and beyond. Andrew Cumbers shows why this is wrong, and why, in the context of the rising tide of populism and the perceived crisis of liberal democracy, economic democracy's time has come. Four decades of market deregulation, financialisation, economic crisis and austerity has meant a loss of economic control and security for the majority of the world's population. The solution must involve allowing people to 'take back control' of their economic lives. Cumbers goes beyond older traditions of economic democracy to develop an ambitious new framework that includes a traditional concern with workplace rights and collective bargaining, but shifts the focus to include consideration of individual economic rights and processes of public engagement and deliberation beyond the workplace. This topical and original book will be essential reading for anyone interested in radical solutions for our economic and political crises.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-01-31
Mått125 x 188 x 14 mm
Vikt159 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCase For
Antal sidor140
FörlagJohn Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN9781509533855

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Introduction The economic roots of the democratic crisisThe retreat from democratic scrutiny in economic policyMaking the case for economic democracy in the twenty-first centuryNotes1 A Brief History of Economic Democracy as Industrial DemocracyIntroductionStruggles for economic democracy in the nineteenth centuryThe growth of a social democratic labour politics in the twentieth centuryThe Meidner Plan and the high tide of twentieth-century social democracyThe convenient fiction of Thatcher’s property-owning democracy‘Stale, male and pale’: the exclusions of twentieth-century industrial democracyConclusionNotes2 The Three Pillars of Economic DemocracyIndividual economic rights and self-governmentDemocratic, collective and diverse public ownershipCreating a deliberative and participatory economic democracyConclusionNotes3 Putting Economic Democracy into PracticeInstitutions for implementing individual self-governance and economic freedomEmergent tendencies in democratic collective ownershipPractising participatory economic decision makingConclusionNotesConclusionConstructing the democratic economyA summary of the main arguments and their policy implicationsMobilizing for economic democracyNotesReferences