Public ownership, worker control, and the labour epistocracy problem

IF 1.6 Q2 ECONOMICS

REVIEW OF SOCIAL ECONOMY Pub Date : 2020-11-08 DOI:10.1080/00346764.2020.1840615

N. Vrousalis

引用次数: 1

Abstract

This paper argues that influential contemporary models of market socialism fail to do justice to traditional socialist concerns about exploitation and, by implication, about workplace oppression. More precisely, neither pure public ownership models (such as Roemer's), nor hybrid models of public ownership plus worker control (such as Schweickart's) suffice individually to attenuate exploitation and workplace hierarchy. Quite independently of alienable capital, these theories fail to account for the labour epistocracy, a class of workers who, by dint of higher marketable epistemic credentials and talents, can subjugate the labour of those with lower epistemic credentials. An improved model of market socialism would, I argue, account for the labour epistocracy by combining universal worker control with a strongly predistributive form of public ownership.

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公有制、工人控制和劳工官僚制度问题

本文认为，有影响力的当代市场社会主义模式未能公正地对待传统的社会主义者对剥削的担忧，以及隐含的对工作场所压迫的担忧。更准确地说，无论是纯粹的公有制模式（如Roemer的），还是公有制加工人控制的混合模式（如Schweickart的），都不足以单独削弱剥削和工作场所的等级制度。这些理论完全独立于可转让资本，未能解释劳工官僚制度，这是一类工人，他们凭借更高的市场认知能力和才能，可以征服那些认知能力较低的人的劳动。我认为，一种改进的市场社会主义模式将通过将普遍的工人控制与强烈的分配形式的公有制相结合，来解释劳工的官僚制度。

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REVIEW OF SOCIAL ECONOMY ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

2.60

自引率

10.00%

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期刊介绍： For over sixty-five years, the Review of Social Economy has published high-quality peer-reviewed work on the many relationships between social values and economics. The field of social economics discusses how the economy and social justice relate, and what this implies for economic theory and policy. Papers published range from conceptual work on aligning economic institutions and policies with given ethical principles, to theoretical representations of individual behaviour that allow for both self-interested and "pro-social" motives, and to original empirical work on persistent social issues such as poverty, inequality, and discrimination.