Economic dependence on employers or charity can itself constitute a form of domination

Evidence

Contemporary civic republicans observe, however, that even when the rule of law is firmly established, there remain many other potential dangers of which the classical republicans were less well aware. For example, while markets as such need not involve domination (Pettit 2006), and indeed when well-ordered might reduce it (Taylor 2017), republicans’ enthusiasm for markets will have definite limits. Specifically, there is the danger of basic needs deprivation, which can place the least advantaged members of society in a position of economic vulnerability (Pettit 1997; Viroli 2002; Lovett 2010). In order to satisfy their basic needs, individuals may well submit themselves to the arbitrary power of exploitative employers or become dependent on the whims of voluntary charity (Dagger 2006; Gourevitch 2015; O’Shea 2019). Ensuring the enjoyment of republican freedom will therefore require some public provision for otherwise unmet basic needs. — Frank Lovett, Republicanism, 54

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: ‘freedom as non-domination’ reframing debates over welfare policy, nonprofit dependence, and gig-economy work — welfare state as a freedom institution rather than charity.
• XREF: Echoes the ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’/‘economic vulnerability as subordination’ themes and connects to the reader’s prior note on class/identity signaling. — connects to: Ideological forms like wages serve to maintain capitalist domination — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 903; Welfare delivered as revocable charity rather than right subjects recipients to domination — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 736; Economic surplus reliably produces arbitrary-set systems of social hierarchy (+3 more)
• QUESTION: How would republicans resolve the tension that public provision to relieve market dependence could itself create state domination over recipients?
• corroborated: 5 independent passages support this claim — Frank Lovett, Republicanism, 54

Related

• Welfare delivered as revocable charity rather than right subjects recipients to domination (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Welfare delivered as revocable charity rather than right subjects recipients to domination #exemplifies (0.92) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 736
• Economic surplus reliably produces arbitrary-set systems of social hierarchy #corroborates (0.82)
• The economy systematically rewards separateness while punishing solidarity and mutual aid #corroborates (0.82) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 1078
• Overcoming capitalism alone would not prevent new forms of domination #qualifies (0.80) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1568
• Ideological forms like wages serve to maintain capitalist domination #corroborates (0.78) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 903
• Paycheck dependence and unaffordable care pervade even rich developed economies #expands (0.78) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 87