The Democratic Worker-Owned Firm (Routledge Revivals) - 9781138892644

Taylor & Francis

The Democratic Worker-Owned Firm (Routledge Revivals)A New Model for the East and West\nAuthor(s): David Ellerman\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138892644, 978-1138892644\nSynopsis\nWhen 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. \n\nThis 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 .