Economic Democracy and Financial Participation examines the ideas behind economic democracy and financial participation. Daryl D'Art examines the question of whether profit sharing schemes and employee shareholding can motivate workers and generate cooperative striving, and if so, under what conditions. He also identifies the schemes of financial participation which have the potential to attain economic democracy within individual firms and the wider society. D'Art draws on the results of research carried out in the United States, Sweden, Denmark, and Ireland, and contrasts an individualist approach to economic democracy with a collectivist approach. The result is a comparative international analysis of financial participation at both a theoretical and practical level.
