Rawlsian Justice and Workplace Republicanism

Although Rawls concludes that he shall not pursue these questions, he writes that certainly these questions call for careful examination. The long-run prospects of a just constitutional regime may depend on them.3 Following Rawls's exhortation, this paper takes up these questions in the light of his account of justice as fairness. In the end, I argue that justice as fairness, as Rawls suggests, grounds worker participation in the governance of economic enterprises more readily than might have been held in the past, but not necessarily in the form of workplace democracy.4 Workplace democracy, as I understand