Market socialism, labour market domination, and the state as employer of last resort

IF 1.6 Q2 ECONOMICS

REVIEW OF SOCIAL ECONOMY Pub Date : 2021-01-23 DOI:10.1080/00346764.2020.1869294

Alan Thomas

引用次数: 4

Abstract

ABSTRACT This paper assesses the claim that to avoid labour market domination we must be market socialists committed to an extensive sector of worker-owned firms. The labour republican tradition offers three perspectives on this argument: Ellerman argues that non-domination demands that all workplaces be worker owned. Hockett has argued that it demands a policy that the state function as the employer of last resort. Taylor argues that all that republicanism requires is a strengthened exit right for workers. This paper develops the claim that mandatory market socialism would be illiberal by thinning the market for labour and removing the fair value of exit rights. The most reasonable view, overall, accepts that the state must be the employer of last resort so as to eliminate labour market domination, but this is a macro-level commitment that does not place any meso-level restrictions on the nature of the firm.

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市场社会主义、劳动力市场支配和国家作为最后雇主

摘要本文评估了这样一种说法：为了避免劳动力市场的主导地位，我们必须成为市场社会主义者，致力于工人所有制企业的广泛部门。劳工共和传统为这一论点提供了三个视角：Ellerman认为，非统治要求所有工作场所都是工人所有。霍克特认为，这需要一项政策，即国家作为最后的雇主发挥作用。泰勒认为，共和主义所需要的只是加强工人的退出权。本文通过削弱劳动力市场和取消退出权的公平价值，提出了强制性市场社会主义是不自由的。总体而言，最合理的观点是，国家必须是消除劳动力市场支配地位的最后雇主，但这是一项宏观层面的承诺，不会对公司的性质施加任何微观层面的限制。

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REVIEW OF SOCIAL ECONOMY ECONOMICS-

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2.60

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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.