http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/0ad10720a12600bf https://verfassungsblog.de/democracy-and-work/ Democracy and Work Bogg, Alan Estlund, Cynthia eng 2025-12-04 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Demokratie Gewerkschaft democracy employment law labour law workers rights Demokratie Gewerkschaft Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 Can a society call itself democratic if its citizens spend much of their waking life subject to the dictatorial control of bosses? Today the question may provoke puzzlement: Why not, as long as the electoral system is in ship shape? But for much of the twentieth century, a critical mass of citizens on both sides of the Atlantic would have answered “no.”