Overview
- Presents a modern version of neo-abolitionism which would also abolish the renting, hiring, employing, or leasing of other people
- Escapes the one and a half centuries old dichotomy of private employment versus public employment
- Explains through the intellectual history of three theories why the employer-employee relationship should be replaced by the system of workplace
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The author repositions the political and economic debate in the lineage of abolitionism - against the owning of other people - which in its modern version of neo-abolitionism would also abolish the renting, or hiring, employing, or leasing of other people.
The overall argument is based on three recovered theories, each one of which is sufficient to yield the neo-abolitionist conclusion. These three rights-based theories are developed throughout the book. The three theories are 1) inalienable rights theory, 2) the natural rights or labor theory of property, and 3) democratic theory as based on a democratic constitution that only delegates governance rights versus a non-democratic constitution that alienates governance rights.
The book, therefore, is a must-read for everybody interested in a better understanding of the political economy, workplace democracy, rights-based theories, and the employment system.
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Book Title: Neo-Abolitionism
Book Subtitle: Abolishing Human Rentals in Favor of Workplace Democracy
Authors: David Ellerman
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62676-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-62675-4Published: 18 February 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-62678-5Published: 19 February 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-62676-1Published: 17 February 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 155
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Economy/Economic Systems, Heterodox Economics, Political Theory, Philosophy of Law, Labor History, Human Resource Management