Daniel Chandler > Quotes

“The challenges that cooperatives face in getting started are not simply the result of inertia or a lack of familiarity with the cooperative model—they reflect some inherent challenges faced by worker-owned businesses.[76] As a result, they do not represent a viable wholesale alternative to the conventional shareholder-owned firm, despite their many advantages.”
― Daniel Chandler, Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society

“Although we cannot create meaningful work by government diktat, we can achieve this by empowering employees to shape their workplaces so that they better reflect their priorities.”
― Daniel Chandler, Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society

“Inequality has increased in most advanced economies since the 1980s, and in the UK, U.S.A. and Canada has reached highs not seen since before the Second World War.[2]”
― Daniel Chandler, Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society

“Instead, we must reinvent the internal structure of companies themselves, so that workers have the legal right to participate in decision-making on much more equal terms.”
― Daniel Chandler, Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society

“While the basic liberties principle shows us how we can reimagine liberal democracy, the combination of fair equality of opportunity, the difference principle and the just savings principle, set us on the path to transforming, or even transcending, capitalism as we know it.”
― Daniel Chandler, Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society

“Whatever the details, for co-management to work well, a few safeguards would need to be in place. Since the primary aim is to democratize the workplace, worker representatives on boards and in works councils should be elected on a “one worker, one vote” basis.”
― Daniel Chandler, Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society

“There are two key aspects of the European model of co-management. First, it gives workers the right to elect a certain share of seats on the board of directors, which as we have seen is responsible for setting a company’s overarching vision and strategy—what to produce and where, how much to invest in new machinery, whether to pursue mergers and acquisitions, and so on—and which appoints the CEO and other executives who are responsible for implementing this strategy.[”
― Daniel Chandler, Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society

“But with the right regulations in place, we can not only ensure that markets operate within safe ecological limits, but also harness their dynamism and efficiency to help bring about this transition.”
― Daniel Chandler, Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society

“with works councils we could immediately establish a body in every workplace with a legal mandate to represent employees’ interests in discussions and negotiations with their management”
― Daniel Chandler, Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society

“As we have seen, a commitment to universalism is at the heart of Rawls’s philosophy; it also provides an alternative to divisive forms of “identity politics” on both left and right.”
― Daniel Chandler, Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society

“Inequality is even more extreme in America, where the top 10 per cent receive 39 per cent of national income, compared to just 19 per cent for the bottom half.”
― Daniel Chandler, Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society