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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

Princeton UP, 2017

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Philosophy professor Elizabeth Anderson presents a brief, thought-provoking and entertaining discussion of history, philosophy, economics and politics in this exploratory debate about workers’ rights in the United States. In the first half, she shares her provocative view of US workers as subject to the whims of bosses with an incredible range of powers. In the second half, she invites her academic peers to critique her position. The result will make any worker, boss or analyst who likes academic arguments think twice about the nature and fairness of employment in America.

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Through a state-sanctioned form of private government, bosses in the US rule their workers’ lives, yet workers, politicians and the public don’t discuss it.
Two historians say this theory by Elizabeth Anderson overestimates society’s degree of equality prior to the Industrial Revolution.
A philosopher asks why employers’ rules should chafe more than governments’ rules and laws.

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Professor Elizabeth Anderson teaches and researches moral and political philosophy and women’s rights at the University of Michigan.

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