Private government : how employers rule our lives (and why we don't talk about it)

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Private government : how employers rule our lives (and why we don't talk about it)

Elizabeth Anderson ; introduction by Stephen Macedo

(The University Center for Human Values series)

Princeton University Press, 2019, c2017

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"First paperback printing, 2019"--T.p. verso

Includes index

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Description

Why our workplaces are authoritarian private governments—and why we can’t see it One in four American workers says their workplace is a "dictatorship." Yet that number almost certainly would be higher if we recognized employers for what they are—private governments with sweeping authoritarian power over our lives. Many employers minutely regulate workers’ speech, clothing, and manners on the job, and employers often extend their authority to the off-duty lives of workers, who can be fired for their political speech, recreational activities, diet, and almost anything else employers care to govern. In this compelling book, Elizabeth Anderson examines why, despite all this, we continue to talk as if free markets make workers free, and she proposes a better way to think about the workplace, opening up space for discovering how workers can enjoy real freedom.

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  • NCID
    BB29104472
  • ISBN
    • 9780691192246
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Princeton
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxiii, 196 p
  • Size
    22 cm
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