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SOSC 1520 9.0 Markets & Democracy

Assignment 10: Economic democracy

Reading: Tom Malleson (2014). After Occupy: Economic Democracy for the 21st Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press), chapter 2: “Should workplaces be democratized?”, pp. 27-53.

Weight: 5% of total course grade

Assignment due: Friday, 3rd December

The usual instructions, as given on previous assignments, apply to this one.

1) Which workers in a capitalist society have the least bargaining power and why? What consequence does their lack of bargaining power have? (Word limit: 75) (2 marks)

2) Why does Malleson disagree with the view that workplaces are “private associations”? (Word limit: 100) (2 marks)

3) What implications might workplace democracy have for the division of labour within the workplace? (Word limit: 75) (1 mark)