Firms as political entities: saving democracy through economic bicameralism

Introduction

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. Today, the service economy is bringing work into the public sphere to govern

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

7. Bicameral movements: a pivotal institutional innovation for governments in democratic transition

8. Analogy: the executive of the firm answering to two chambers

9. To conclude