Republicanism and Wage Slavery: Domination, Private Property, and the Role of the Market

This paper is addressed to those republicans who are committed to workplace democracy, on the grounds that bosses dominate workers. It argues that those republicans should be opposed to private property. I begin by identifying the fundamental pro tanto normative principles that ground the main contemporary republican argument for workplace democracy. I then argue that the full realization of these principles is undermined by the existence of private property in the means of production and that avowal of workplace democracy on the basis of these principles commits those who avow them to economic democracy.