Neo-Abolitionism: Abolishing Human Rentals in Favor of Workplace Democracy

By David Ellerman

Book Overview

1: Introduction1.1: Neo-Abolitionism1.2: What is "the system" being argued against?1.3: What is the system being argued for?2: Contract: The case against the human rental contract based on inalienability2.1: Contractual defenses of slavery2.2: History of inalienability theory2.3: Modern Theory of Inalienable Rights2.4: How to (Mis)Understand Inalienability Theory3: Property: The case against the human rental system based on private property rights3.1: The misnomer of "Capitalism" and the fundamental myth3.2: Marginal productivity theory3.3: History of property theory4: Governance: The case against the employment system based on democratic theory4.1: Intellectual history of consent-based non-democratic government4.2: Intellectual history of the case for democratic governance4.3: The debate about corporations5: Summary and Conclusions5.1: Conventional Classical Liberalism5.2: Summary: Inalienable rights theory5.3: Summary: The natural rights or labor theory of property5.4: Summary: Democratic theory and the democratic alternative

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 303062675X
• ISBN13: 9783030626754
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 155 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"