Introduction The economic roots of the democratic crisis The retreat from democratic scrutiny in economic policy Making the case for economic democracy in the twenty-first century Notes 1 A Brief History of Economic Democracy as Industrial Democracy Introduction Struggles for economic democracy in the nineteenth century The growth of a social democratic labour politics in the twentieth century The Meidner Plan and the high tide of twentieth-century social democracy The convenient fiction of Thatcher’s property-owning democracy ‘Stale, male and pale’: the exclusions of twentieth-century industrial democracy Conclusion Notes 2 The Three Pillars of Economic Democracy Individual economic rights and self-government Democratic, collective and diverse public ownership Creating a deliberative and participatory economic democracy Conclusion Notes 3 Putting Economic Democracy into Practice Institutions for implementing individual self-governance and economic freedom Emergent tendencies in democratic collective ownership Practising participatory economic decision making Conclusion Notes Conclusion Constructing the democratic economy A summary of the main arguments and their policy implications Mobilizing for economic democracy Notes References

AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter One: A Brief History of Economic Democracy as Industrial DemocracyChapter Two: The Three Pillars of Economic DemocracyChapter Three: Putting Economic Democracy into PracticeConclusionNotesReferences