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Migration and Demos in the Democratic Firm: An Extension of the State-Firm Analogy

Patrick Cockburn Orcid Logo, Jonathan Preminger Orcid Logo

Political Theory, Volume: 51, Issue: 3, Pages: 557 - 580

Swansea University Author: Patrick Cockburn Orcid Logo

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Debates around the state-firm analogy as a route to justifying workplace democracy tend towards a static view of both state and firm, and position workplace democracy as the objective. We contend, however, that states and firms are connected to one another in ways that should alter the terms of the...

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ISSN: 0090-5917 1552-7476
Published: SAGE Publications 2023
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