Andrew Cumbers is Professor in Regional Political Economy at the University of Glasgow

• 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

AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter One: A Brief History of Economic Democracy as Industrial DemocracyChapter Two: The Three Pillars of Economic DemocracyChapter Three: Putting Economic Democracy into PracticeConclusionNotesReferences