Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It) (The University Center for Human Values Series) Cover
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Private Government How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It) (The University Center for Human Values Series)

Elizabeth Anderson

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 probably would be even higher if we recognized most employers for what they are―private governments with sweeping authoritarian pow...

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The Ezra Klein Show

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The Ezra Klein Show

Anderson examined how workplaces function as private governments that shape democratic life, arguing that employment relations heavily influence civil liberties and free speech beyond electoral politics.

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Second would be Private Government by Elizabeth Anderson. I think that's a really useful, accessible book about how we consider democracy in all of our lives except for the workplace.

— Episode: There’s Been a Massive Change in Where A...

Episode: There’s Been a Massive Change in Where American Po...

Anderson examined how workplaces function as private governments that shape democratic life, arguing that employment relations heavily influence civil liberties and free speech beyond electoral politics.

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Second would be Private Government by Elizabeth Anderson. I think that's a really useful, accessible book about how we consider democracy in all of our lives except for the workplace.

Freakonomics Radio

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Freakonomics Radio

It was discussed as a book that argues the most oppressive government many people interact with is their employer, due to the power employers wield over employees and the limited rights workers have, suggesting a need for employee rights and protection.

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She argues that the most oppressive government that most of us interact with is not actually the state We're hyper concerned about the government and our constitutional rights and whether the governme...

— Episode: 512. Does Philosophy Still Matter?

Episode: 512. Does Philosophy Still Matter?

It was discussed as a book that argues the most oppressive government many people interact with is their employer, due to the power employers wield over employees and the limited rights workers have, suggesting a need for employee rights and protection.

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She argues that the most oppressive government that most of us interact with is not actually the state We're hyper concerned about the government and our constitutional rights and whether the government's respecting our rights and she says but wait a minute I want you to look somewhere else your employer has a ton of power over you and you have as things stand now in our society very few rights and Many of our employers treat us in just the ways that we're worried about governments treating us

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