Economic Democracy Is at the Heart of Socialism

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Economic Democracy Is at the Heart of Socialism

In 1872, British courts prosecuted more than seventeen thousand workers for a single offense: leaving their jobs. Under the Master and Servants Acts, wage laborers who quit before the end of an agreed term, or who merely refused to show up to work, could be sentenced to three months of hard labor. Employers who violated the same rule, by withholding wages or firing someone without notice, owed just a civil debt. Acro…