Abstract
The book entitled is focused on finding the theoretical and particularly practical basis of departure from the state of the alarming social position of working citizens through the spread of democracy in the area of labour relations. In the first, theoretical part, the author pays attention to the general description of the fundamental traits of capitalism, which is currently the most widespread economic system in the world.
In the last section of the first chapter, the author briefly focuses on the core aspects of the internal structure of democracy, its forms and rules, as well as on its relationship to capitalism and economic spheres of society in general. The second, practical, part of the book includes an investigation of the problem of definition of economic democracy based on the current level of knowledge of social sciences and humanities.
The author focuses mainly on the description of the central principles of economic democracy, and the enlightening of its definitional characteristics. He also attempts to find answers to the most pressing issues related to the project of economic democracy, which is the well-known problem of applicability of this theory.
In either parts of the monograph are both the capitalist economic system and democracy presented in the background of the basic concepts of the selected luminaries of various streams of liberalism, as the most popular and most modified political ideology, which greatly affects them by its conclusions, further of neopluralism, Marxism and neomarxism. In the third chapter of the book, the author focuses on the cases of the following countries: USA, former Yugoslavia, Spain (Basque cooperative Mondragón), Germany, Sweden, Australia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Great Britain, France, Russia, Israel, Argentina, China and Japan.
Particularly he also analyzes current legislation enabling the financial participation of employees in the EU and so-called European Works Councils.