{"product_id":"the-case-for-economic-democracy-paperback-softback-9781509533855","title":"The Case for Economic Democracy (Paperback \/ softback) 9781509533855","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Case for Economic Democracy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAndrew Cumbers (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509533855, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 31 January 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e140 pages\u003cbr\u003e18.8 x 12.4 x 1.4 cm, 0.159 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter One: A Brief History of Economic Democracy as Industrial Democracy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Two: The Three Pillars of Economic Democracy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Three: Putting Economic Democracy into Practice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReferences\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This topical and original book will be essential reading for anyone interested in radical solutions for our economic and political crises.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction \u003cp\u003eThe economic roots of the democratic crisis\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe retreat from democratic scrutiny in economic policy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaking the case for economic democracy in the twenty-first century\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 A Brief History of Economic Democracy as Industrial Democracy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStruggles for economic democracy in the nineteenth century\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe growth of a social democratic labour politics in the twentieth century\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Meidner Plan and the high tide of twentieth-century social democracy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe convenient fiction of Thatcher’s property-owning democracy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Stale, male and pale’: the exclusions of twentieth-century industrial democracy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 The Three Pillars of Economic Democracy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndividual economic rights and self-government\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDemocratic, collective and diverse public ownership\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCreating a deliberative and participatory economic democracy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Putting Economic Democracy into Practice\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInstitutions for implementing individual self-governance and economic freedom\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEmergent tendencies in democratic collective ownership\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePractising participatory economic decision making\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConstructing the democratic economy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA summary of the main arguments and their policy implications\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMobilizing for economic democracy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Economics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Economics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Economics%20%5BKC%5D%22\"\u003eKC\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52462924955928,"sku":"9781509533855","price":10.86,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509533855.jpg?v=1785542484","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-case-for-economic-democracy-paperback-softback-9781509533855","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}