Jedidiah Kroncke
in John D. Haskell(ed), Research Handbook on Law and Political Economy (2nd edition, Edward Elgar Publishing, September 2025), Chapter 33, pp. 562 - 576
Published online: September 2025
Abstract: Critical scholarship on workplace law has a long traditional of emphasizing the central role of extralegal factors in the effective realization of both individual employment rights and regimes of collective bargaining. Classic and contemporary scholarship in law and political economy builds on this awareness by emphasizing the interconnection of workplace law with other core areas of economic organization—notably antitrust and corporate law. Moreover, such scholarship also illustrates the disabling legacy of isolating workplace organization from broader debates about the necessary economic dimensions of democratic citizenship writ large. Instead, LPE approaches emphasize the social centrality of the workplace as a forum for exercising and developing democratic agency that is mutually reinforcing and energizing with formal political institutions and enfranchisement. This chapter will highlight recent scholarship which shows how an LPE perspective on workplace organization illustrates both the promise of LPE approaches for identifying the illusory nature of the public/private law divide as well as for mapping out the inter-related reforms necessary for promoting a renewed, robust vision of democratic citizenship. One key quandary explored will be how to integrate existing traditions of critical work on employment rights and collective bargaining with current interest in fundamentally reshaping the place of labor in the decision-making of economic enterprises.
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