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

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Elizabeth Anderson

Private Government

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

Elizabeth Anderson

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English

Princeton University Pres
08 July 2019

Social & political philosophy; Political science & theory; Economics & Business; Employment & unemployment; Employment & labour law

Series: The University Center for Human Values Series

"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 regulat"

By: Elizabeth Anderson
Imprint: Princeton University Pres
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm,
ISBN: 9780691192246
ISBN 10: 0691192243
Series: The University Center for Human Values Series
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 08 July 2019
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Elizabeth Anderson is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and John Dewey Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan. Her books include The Imperative of Integration (Princeton).

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

“Anderson explores a striking American contradiction. On the one hand, we are a freedom-obsessed society, wary of government intrusion into our private lives; on the other, we allow ourselves to be tyrannized by our bosses.”—Joshua Rothman, NewYorker.com “Private Government is a welcome and important call to bring workplace governance back into political theory and discourse, and should be taken seriously if we are to promote greater democracy in the workplace.”—David Cowan, Times Literary Supplement “Highlight[s] the dramatic and alarming changes that work has undergone over the past century—insisting that, in often unseen ways, the changing nature of work threatens the fundamental ideals of democracy.”—Miya Tokumitsu, New Republic “The extent of the arbitrary authority of owners and managers over employees is surprisingly neglected by political thinkers, given how much time we spend at work and how little in the polling booth. Elizabeth Anderson provides a much-needed, important, and compelling account of this overlooked subject. Private Government deserves to be widely read and discussed.”—Alan Ryan, professor emeritus, University of Oxford