The Good of Workplace Democracy: The Moral Case for a Cooperative Economy (Routledge Research in Applied Ethics)

This book argues for workplace democracy on the grounds that it supports the development of fundamental human goods such as personal autonomy, self-development, and communal solidarity. Workplace democracy is an old, but reinvigorated, idea that business firms should be organized democratically.Many proponents of workplace democracy contend that the organization of business firms should be consistent with the liberal/republican value of equal freedom that animates Western democracies.However, these arguments undersell the idea of workplace democracy by ignoring its significant moral, social, and psychological benefits.This book advances a novel, goods-based argument for workplace democracy.It engages with a wide range of psychological, sociological, and health-related data that point out the importance of the fundamental goods of personal autonomy, communal solidarity, and self-development to the flourishing or well-being of individuals, along with workplace democracy’s ability to prov