(p.471) ... the ideal of non-domination is insufficient on its own and that an adequate defense of workplace democracy will also have to incorporate, in substantial measure, positive freedom understood as self-determination.

(p.477) Workplace republicanism enjoys distinct advantages over psychologicalsupport and parallel-case arguments for workplace democracy. In contrast to psychological-support claims, its success does not depend on contingent causal relationships between the experience of working life and citizen virtues or on the instrumental benefits workplace democratization might have for the quality of democracy at the political level. Although these relationships and benefits may hold true, and would bolster the case for strong protections against managerial power if they did, they are neither required by workplace republicanism nor its focus. Instead, its focus is squarely on enterprise activities themselves, on the effects they have...

(p.957) If a causal link can be established in which voice practices in the workplace positively influence participation in civil society, then this could be seen as a positive outward democratic spillover. Understanding this spillover can help inform public policy on employee participation (Budd and Zagelmeyer 2010) and contribute toward understanding the ways in which a society can encourage more active political participation among its citizenry. Indeed, the most optimistic of the existing scholarship implies that this spillover may hold the key to shaping democratic societies (Greenberg 1986). Moreover, evaluations of organizational management practices are typically directed inward, largely focusing on...

(p.979) Using a sample of more than 14,000 European workers, we find that employees with greater levels of individual autonomy and voice at work are indeed significantly more likely to engage in a broad array of prodemocratic behaviors. This relationship appears just as strong as the commonly accepted relationship between trade unions and political participation, and appears to be a distinct relationship apart from this collective voice sphere.

(p.572) [T]he set of concerns relating to the impact of capitalism on republican political participation is not limited to this extension of the distributional critique discussed above. As Sandel also explains, a second line of labour republican argument focused on how the experience of working in an authoritarian workplace allegedly undermine the character, or deprives individuals of the skills, necessary for active republican citizenship (Sandel 1995, pp. 185–186). Denied any opportunity to exercise democratic control of their working lives, wage workers will allegedly lose the skills and/or inclinations necessary for democratic control of their polity.

(p.573) To put the point crudely, capitalism is hungry for our time and energy and need not leave people with enough for the needs of republican political participation.