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Author Wolff, Richard D.

Title Democracy at work : a cure for capitalism / Richard Wolff.

Imprint Chicago, Ill. : Haymarket Books, c2012.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  330.12 W832d 2012    ---  Available
Description 201 p. ; 19 cm.
text rdacontent
unmediated rdamedia
volume rdacarrier
Note Includes index.
Summary Wolff shows why and how to make democratic workplaces real. He speaks to those who realize that capitalism economics and politics as usual have become intolerable and who seek a concrete action program.
Contents Introduction -- Capitalism in deep trouble. Capitalism and crises ; Crisis and government response ; Crises, forms of capitalism, and beyond -- What is to be done? The major problems of private capitalisms ; The major problems of state capitalism -- Workers' self-directed enterprises as a cure. What "self-directed" means ; How WSDEs work internally ; Property ownership, markets, planning, and the efficiency myth ; Economic and political democracy ; WSDEs in modern societies ; Program and personnel for increasing WSDEs -- Conclusion.
Subject Capitalism.
Democracy -- Economic aspects.
Capitalism. (OCoLC)fst00846425
Democracy -- Economic aspects. (OCoLC)fst00890081
ISBN 9781608462476 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1608462471 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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