Digital platforms and application software have changed how people work in a range of
industries. Empirical studies of the gig economy have raised concerns about new systems of …

In the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, an important conceptual battleground for
democratic theorists ought to be, it would seem, the capitalist firm. We are now painfully …

Is equality valuable? This question dominates many discussions of social justice, which tend
to center on whether certain forms of distributive equality are valuable, such as the equal …

This article explores the republican case for worker voice in economic enterprises based on
the ideal of freedom as non-domination and assesses its merits relative to two influential …

This chapter reviews the most prominent approaches to business legitimacy from a
contractarian perspective. First, the contractarian business ethics approach is presented …

Flagging labor governance in far-flung supply networks has prompted greater scrutiny of
instrumental CSR and calls for models that are tethered more closely to accountability …

This paper re-examines the import of Rawls's theory of justice for private sector institutions in
the face of the decline of the welfare state. The argument is based on a Rawlsian conception …

This article considers the economic case for so-called sweatshop wages and working
conditions. My goal is not to defend or reject the economic case for sweatshops. Instead …

The notion of “democracy” has become a much-debated concept in scholarship on business
ethics, management, and organization studies. The strategy of this paper is to distinguish …

Marx is a theorist of emancipation, famous as a trailblazing analyst of capitalism, a fierce
critic of its alienation and domination, and perhaps the greatest socialist thinker to date. Yet …