Providing hope and direction to sustain commitment on the path to
change, No Bosses is about winning a new world. Life under capitalism.
Rampant debilitating denial for the many next to vile enrichment of the
few. Material deprivation, denial, and denigration. Dignity defiled.
Michael Albert's book No Bosses advocates for the conception and then
organization of a new economy. The vision offered is called
participatory economics. It elevates self-management, equity,
solidarity, diversity, and sustainability. It eliminates elitist,
arrogant, dismissive, authoritarian, exploitation, competition, and
homogenization. No Bosses proposes a built and natural productive
commons, self-management by all who work, income for how long, how hard,
and the onerousness of conditions of socially valued work, jobs that
give all economic actors comparable means and inclination to participate
in decisions that affect them, and a process called participatory
planning in which caring behavior and solidarity are the currency of
collective and individual success.