Private Government

Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Anderson Klappentext "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 "This is a very exciting and extremely important book that presents a major challenge to philosophers and social scientists to think about the modern workplace as a form of private government. It is strange that, in a liberal society, there is so little discussion of the relations of power that characterize the workplace. Anderson deftly brings together history, economic theory, and philosophy to have just that conversation. This book unsettles some very deep, unjustifiable assumptions we have about the nature and organization of work today." --Alexander Gourevitch, Brown University Zusammenfassung Why our workplaces are authoritarian private governments-and why we can't see itOne 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

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Anderson
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9780691192246
• ISBN: 978-0-691-19224-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 220 mm x 15 mm
• Series: The University Center for Human Values Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, LAW / Labor & Employment, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Trade Unions, Political science and theory, Employment & Labour Law, Employment & Unemployment, Employment and labour law: general, Industrial arbitration and negotiation