The Case for Economic Democracy (Paperback, 1st)

Introduction

The economic roots of the democratic crisis

The retreat from democratic scrutiny in economic policy

Making the case for economic democracy in the twenty-first century

Notes

1 A Brief History of Economic Democracy as Industrial Democracy

Introduction

Struggles for economic democracy in the nineteenth century

The growth of a social democratic labour politics in the twentieth century

The Meidner Plan and the high tide of twentieth-century social democracy

The convenient fiction of Thatcher’s property-owning democracy

‘Stale, male and pale’: the exclusions of twentieth-century industrial democracy

Conclusion

Notes

2 The Three Pillars of Economic Democracy

Individual economic rights and self-government

Democratic, collective and diverse public ownership

Creating a deliberative and participatory economic democracy

Conclusion

Notes

3 Putting Economic Democracy into Practice

Institutions for implementing individual self-governance and economic freedom

Emergent tendencies in democratic collective ownership

Practising participatory economic decision making

Conclusion

Notes

Conclusion

Constructing the democratic economy

A summary of the main arguments and their policy implications

Mobilizing for economic democracy

Notes

References