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How democracy can be extended to the workplace

This volume shows that engineers are trained and organized quite distinctly in different national contexts. It includes case studies of engineers in six major industrial economies: Japan, France, Germany, Sweden, Britain and the United States.

In a system of basic income, as elaborated by Philippe van Paijs, all citizens are given a monthly stipend sufficiently high to provide them with a no-frills, but adequate standard of living.

Addresses the challenges posed by a globally integrated economy and the economic roles played by information and motivation. The text argues for an egalitarian redistribution of assets - land, capital and housing - and the beneficial disciplining effects of competition.

The age of the male breadwinner and the female caregiver has passed, but gender inequality is as persistent as ever. This work intervenes in debates on domestic inequality, examining tensions between work and family life for women. It explores class disparity, who should care for infants, and fatherhood in a dual-earner family.

The forms of liberal democracy developed in the 19th century seem increasingly ill-suited to the problems we face in the 21st. This dilemma has given rise to a deliberative democracy, and this text explores four contemporary cases in which the principles have been at least partially instituted.

This work is based on John Roemer's model of "coupon socialism". Roemer's model aims to combine the market with a commitment to equality through a radical proposal: all citizens would receive an equal number of coupons with which to buy ownership rights (voting, dividends) in companies.