Democratizing the Corporation: The Bicameral Firm and Beyond by Isabelle Ferrera

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Democratizing the Corporation by Isabelle Ferreras, Tom Malleson, Joel Rogers, David Ellerman, Thomas Ferretti, Marc Fleurbaey, Robert F. Freeland, Axel Gosseries, Carly Knight, Ewan McGaughey How democracy can be extended to the workplace FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Although contemporary Western societies refer to themselves as "democratic," the bulk of the population spend much of their lives in workplaces that are severely undemocratic, even tyrannical. Gigantic corporations such as Amazon, Meta, Exxon, and Walmart are now among the richest and most powerful institutions in the world yet accountable to no one but a limited number of shareholders. The undemocratic nature of conventional firms generates profound problems across society, including domination at work, environmental destruction, andspiralling inequality.Against this backdrop, Isabelle Ferreras proposes a radical but realistic solution to democratizing the private firm. She suggests that all large firms should be bicamerally governed, with a chamber of worker representatives sharing equal governance power with the standard Board representing owners. In response to this proposal, twelve leading experts on corporate behavior from multiple disciplines consider its attractiveness, viability, and achievability as a "real utopian" proposal to strengthen democracy in our time. Author Biography The Real Utopias Project is a long running book and conference series initiated by Erik Olin Wright. It was meant to combine rigorous social scientific analysis with visions of the world as it ought to be. This will be the first RUP book to be written since Erik Olin Wrights death.Tom Malleson is associate professor of Social Justice & Peace Studies at Kings University College at Western University. They are the Coordinator of the Real Utopias Project series. Their latest books include After Occupy: Economic Democracy for the 21st Century (Oxford University Press), Fired Up About Capitalism (Between the Lines Press), and Part-Time for All: A Care Manifesto (co-authored with Jennifer Nedelsky and forthcoming from Oxford University Press). They are also a long-time social justice activist and organizer.Isabelle Ferreras is a sociologist (PhD Louvain 2004), and a political scientist (MSc Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004). She also studied at the Harvard Trade Union Program (Certificate, Harvard, 2005). She is a senior tenured fellow (maître de recherches) of the Belgian National Science Foundation (F.N.R.S.-F.R.S., Brussels), a professor of sociology at the University of Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) where she is a permanent research of the CriDIS (IACCHOS-Centre for interdisciplinary research Democracy, Institutions, Subjectivity, Louvain), and a senior research associate of the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School (Cambridge, MA). Isabelle Ferreras has been elected President of the Royal Academy of Science, Humanities, and the Arts of Belgium, Director of its Technology and Academy Class (2021-2022).itter: @Ferreras_IsaJoel Rogers is the Noam Chomsky Professor of Law, Political Science, Public Affairs, and Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he also directs COWS, the national resource and strategy center on high-road development that also operates the Mayors Innovation Project, State Smart Transportation Initiative (with Smart Growth America), and ProGov21. Rogers has written widely on party politics, democratic theory, and cities and urban regions. Along with many scholarly and popular articles, his books include The Hidden Election, On Democracy, Right Turn, Metro Futures, Associations and Democracy, Works Councils, Working Capital, What Workers Want, Cites at Work, and American Society: How It Really Works. Joel is an active citizen as well as academic. He has worked with and advised many politicians and social movement leaders, and has initiated and/or helped lead several progressive NGOs (including the New Party (now the Working Families Party], EARN (Economic Analysis and Research Network], WRTP (Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership], Apollo Alliance (now part of the Blue Green Alliance], Emerald Cities Collaborative, State Innovation Exchange, and EPIC-N (Educational Partnership for Innovation in Communities Network). He is a contributing editor of The Nation and Boston Review, a MacArthur Foundation Fellow, and identified by Newsweek as one of the 100 living Americans most likely to shape U.S. politics and culture in the 21st century. Table of Contents PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction, Tom Malleson and Joel RogersI. The Proposal1. Democratizing the Corporation: The Proposal of the Bicameral Firm, Isabelle FerrerasII. Democracy at Work2. The Progressive Eras Public Firm, Carly R. Knight3. Workplace Democracy, the Bicameral Firm, and Stakeholder Theory, Marc FleurbaeyIII. The Corporation and the Law4. Fallacies about Corporations: Comments on "Democratizing the Corporation," David Ellerman5. Prospects for Democratizing the Corporation in US Law, Robert F. Freeland6. Economic Democracy at Work: Why (and How) Workers Should Be Represented on US Corporate Boards, Lenore PalladinoIV. Nuts and Bolts of Economic Bicameralism7. Islands and the Sea: Making Firm-Level Democracy Durable, Max Krahé8. Are Bicameral Firms Preferable to Codetermination or Worker Cooperatives? Thomas Ferretti and Axel Gosseries9. Learning from Cooperatives to Strengthen Economic Bicameralism, Simon PekV. Economic Democracy: The Big Picture10. The Prospects for Economic Democracy: Learning from Sweden as Failed Case, Bo Rothstein11. Ferreras and the Economic Democracy Debate, Christopher Mackin12. Five Principles of Economic Democracy, Ewan McGaughey13. Economic Democracy against Racial Capitalism: Seeding Freedom, Sanjay PintoVI. Conclusion14. A Response to My Readers, Isabelle FerrerasNotes Review An essential book and a crucial discussion in order to rethink economic democracy and the structure of power relations within firms. A must-read! -- Thomas Piketty (PSE-ENS, Paris)The idea that power should be held to account is widely accepted, but has been woefully neglected in economic relations. Ferreras path breaking idea to govern firms like democratic governments by dividing rather than centralizing power offers a fertile ground for reimagining firms in the 21st century. -- Katharina Pistor (Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law & Director, Center on Global Legal Transformation, Columbia Law School, NYC)A landmark publication for anyone who believes that capitalism is not the end of history. We deserve a more democratic, just and sustainable economy, one step towards which might well be Isabelle Ferrerass visionary plan for economic bicameralism. -- Hélène Landemore (Full Professor in the Political Science department, Yale University Distinguished Researcher, Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford) Promotional The first step toward democratizing the economy Details ISBN1804294535 Author Ewan McGaughey Pages 336 Publisher Verso Books Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781804294536 Format Paperback Imprint Verso Books Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Isabelle Ferreras NZ Release Date 2024-02-27 Series The Real Utopias Project Audience General ISBN-10 1804294535 DEWEY 658.3152 AU Release Date 2024-06-03 Subtitle The Bicameral Firm and Beyond Publication Date 2024-03-19 UK Release Date 2024-03-19 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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