Private Government - Elizabeth Anderson - 2023
How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk About It)
By: Elizabeth Anderson
Narrated by: Lauren Pedersen
Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 06-06-23
Categories: Politics & Social Sciences, Law, Labor & Industrial Relations
Language: English
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Format: mp3 64/48 stereo
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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