Democracy at Work, Richard D. Wolff
Democracy at Work, Richard D. Wolff
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Democracy at Work
A Cure for Capitalism

Author: Richard D. Wolff

Narrator: Shawn Compton

Unabridged: 6 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/12/2019


Synopsis

Capitalism as a system has spawned deepening economic crisis alongside its bought-and-paid-for political establishment. Neither serves the needs of our society. Whether it is secure, well-paid, and meaningful jobs or a sustainable relationship with the natural environment that we depend on, our society is not delivering the results people need and deserve.

One key cause for this intolerable state of affairs is the lack of genuine democracy in our economy as well as in our politics. The solution requires the institution of genuine economic democracy, starting with workers managing their own workplaces, as the basis for a genuine political democracy.

Here Richard D. Wolff lays out a hopeful and concrete vision of how to make that possible, addressing the many people who have concluded economic inequality and politics as usual can no longer be tolerated and are looking for a concrete program of action.

About Richard D. Wolff

Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a Visiting Professor at the New School University in New York. Wolff's recent work has concentrated on analyzing the causes and alternative solutions to the global economic crisis. His groundbreaking book Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism inspired the creation of Democracy at Work, a nonprofit organization dedicated to showing how and why to make democratic workplaces real.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kevin on September 29, 2024

A (Micro) Cure for Capitalism? Preamble: --Let me first say that I greatly respect academics who put in the time with public education and engagement. You can have your personal favorite über-Marxist with hefty tomes of undiluted dialectics, but I think it’s equally bad-ass to try and explain “social......more

Goodreads review by Jeremy on May 12, 2013

After studying philosophy and economics, I came to a very similar conclusion as Richard Wolff. I didn't have a name for it, but I knew I should be able to appropriate the profits of my labor. Then, I read this book, and he really explains why it's absolutely important that we're able to appropriate......more

Goodreads review by Dan on December 23, 2012

i'm not sure i am the target audience for this book. i agree with most of it though i feel like there is something missing. i agree with the idea that the micro level of economic organization must be changed to build a truly equal macro level. and vice versa. it's dialectic. and i agree that workers......more

Goodreads review by Donald on May 17, 2023

I agree with the basic thrust of this book - that any future socialism needs to focus a lot of attention on building resilient worker-centered institutions. As an introductory book on this topic for young Americans it is better than something like Parecon because it is avoids some of the more Utopia......more

Goodreads review by Elan on October 21, 2021

Wolff does not disappoint! Perfect intro for beginners on the perils of traditional capitalism as well as well Soviet-style command economies. Viewing the latter as a dead end for the Left, he instead proposes working-class empowerment via coops, providing a succinct analysis of the political econom......more