Firms as Political Entities: Saving Democracy through Economic Bicameralism

Part I: Critical History of Power in the Firm: The Slow Transition of Work from the Private to the Public Sphere
1. Stage One: the workplace and its emergence from the household
2. The nineteenth and twentieth centuries: workers' movements and the invention of collective bargaining
3. The twentieth century and the ambiguities of institutional innovations in the capitalist firm
4. The twenty-first century service economy is bringing work fully into the public sphere;
Part II: What Is a Firm?
5. Obsolete vision: instrumental rationality as the firm's sole logic
6. Foundations for the political theory of the firm;
Part III: Looking to the Future: From Political Bicameralism to Economic Bicameralism
7. Bicameral movements: a pivotal institutional innovation for governments in democratic transition
8. Analogy: the executive of the firm answering to a two-chamber parliament;