Private Government

Moreover, the decision to adopt efficiency as measured by market outcomes is a decision to value workers’ interests in inverse proportion to their marginal utility of wealth.

I advocate a different way to determine the value of workers’ dignity and autonomy: let workers speak for themselves in the context of a system of workplace governance in which they have a voice.

Within a workplace government that guarantees workers a voice, managers will be free to offer different packages of wages and working conditions, and workers will be free to suggest alternative packages, negotiate, and vote on trade-offs.