Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It)

by Elizabeth S. Anderson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691192243
• ISBN13: 9780691192246
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.7"