Democratize Work

Isabelle Ferreras is a senior research associate at the National Fund for Scientific Research in Brussels, professor of sociology at the University of Louvain in Belgium, and a senior research associate of the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School. She serves as president of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium and is the author of Firms as Political Entities. Julie Battilana is the Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and the Alan L. Gleitsman Professor of Social Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School, where she is also the founder and faculty chair of the Social Innovation and Change Initiative. She is the coauthor of Power, For All. Dominique Meda is professor of sociology and director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research in the Social Sciences at Paris Dauphine University PSL. She is the coauthor of several books, including Post-Growth Economics and Society. Together they lead the www.DemocratizingWork.org movement.

Introduction: For a Fairer, More Democratic, Greener Society
  Julie Battilana
Manifesto: Work. Democratize. Decommodify. Decarbonize.
From the Politically Impossible to the Politically Inevitable: Taking Action
  Isabelle Ferreras
Democratize Firms . . . Why, and How?
  Hélène Landemore
Equal Dignity for All Citizens Means Equal Voice at Work: The Importance of Epistemic Justice
  Lisa Herzog
Democratizing Work to Reverse Increasing Inequalities
  Imge Kaya-Sabanci
Work in Dignity
  Adelle Blackett
Dual Majorities for Firm Governments
  Sara Lafuente
Rescuing Journalism by Decommodifying the Media
  Julia Cagé
Decommodifying Work: The Power of a Job Guarantee
  Pavlina R. Tcherneva
All Workers Produce Value
  Neera Chandhoke
The Subaltern Worker-Body Speaks; Will the Privileged Listen?
  Flávia Máximo
Sustaining Life on This Planet
  Alyssa Battistoni
Working Against an End: Shifting Gears for a New Beginning
  Dominique Méda
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Index