Isabelle Ferreras was born on 21 August 1975 and is a Belgian sociologist and a political scientist.
13 Facts About Isabelle Ferreras
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Isabelle Ferreras is a professor of sociology at the University of Louvain where she is affiliated with the Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires Democratie, Institutions, Subjectivite.
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Isabelle Ferreras is a senior research associate at the Labor and Work life Program at Harvard Law School.
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Isabelle Ferreras is interested in topics such as worker's experiences, democratic equality in capitalist societies, corporate governance, labor-manager relations, unions, and the labor market.
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In 2004 Isabelle Ferreras obtained a PhD in sociology from the University of Louvain as well as a MSc in political science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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In 2000, Isabelle Ferreras was a visiting scholar at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Furthermore, Isabelle Ferreras has conducted several empirical case studies of workers in collaboration with different academic colleagues.
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Isabelle Ferreras proposes to democratise firms to make them fit the context of democratic societies by implementing economic bicameralism in companies.
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Isabelle Ferreras argues that the private rule of the capital investors is illegitimate.
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Isabelle Ferreras argues that two types of rationalities exist in a firm.
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Isabelle Ferreras proposes to organize firms in a bicameral system of corporate governance inspired by bicameral political legislatures.
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Isabelle Ferreras sees herself as a critical scientist and is inspired by Jurgen Habermas' idea of the critical social scientist whose work is moved by the knowledge constitutive interest to emancipate mankind.
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Isabelle Ferreras wants to help citizens better understand their situation in the specific moment in history they live, to "contribute to their capacity to seek autonomy at a collective and individual level," and affect their own future.