Digital transformation, cooperatives, and the perspectives of workplace democracy

Richard Sturn

Z'GuG Zeitschrift für Gemeinwirtschaft und Gemeinwohl, 2021, vol. 44, issue 4, 501-517

Abstract: The advantages of cooperatives compared to hierarchically organized capitalist firms are related to the problems and pathologies of labour markets. The latter can be analysed using the theory of incomplete employment contracts. Against this theoretical background, there are three arguments for a specific role of cooperatives/economic democracy in the digital transformation: (1) A socially advantageous reconfiguration of tasks and their integration in attractive job profiles is dependent on democratic participation. (2) The trend towards “more complete” employment contracts, supported by digital technologies, is a dystopia if it is not democratically embedded, and (3) Digital technologies can support problem-appropriate forms of participation.

Date: 2021
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