Originally published in 1985, Retrieving Democracy offers a thorough and systematic answer to the familiar objection that genuine democracy is utopian. The book outlines an imaginary, yet imaginable, society that would be non-racist, non-sexist, and sufficiently classless to support true civic equality. Moving beyond previous discussions of re-industrialization and economic democracy, the book proposes the social control of corporations; a democratic division of labour that would maximize equality of citizenship rather than merely the production of commodities; the democratization of trade unions; the equalization of wages and job opportunities and the insulation of electoral politics from the power of money.
| ISBN: | 9781032433318 |
| Publication date: | 31st March 2023 |
| Author: | Philip Green |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 286 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Library Editions: Inequality |
| Genres: |
Political structures: democracy Centrist democratic ideologies Left-of-centre democratic ideologies Social and political philosophy |