Private government
Subtitle: how employers rule our lives (and why we don't talk about it)
By: Elizabeth Anderson ; introduction by Stephen Macedo
Contributors: Macedo, Stephen, 1957- writer of introduction
Series: University Center for Human Values series; University Center for Human Values series
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780691176512
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Quality of work life; Industrial relations; Work
Other titles: Tanner lectures on human values (Cambridge, Mass.)
Description: Based on two lectures given in 2014 by the author during the Tanner Lectures on Human Values delivered at Princeton University, followed by four commentaries by eminent scholars and the author's response to the commentators. Anderson questions the authoritarian control workers have been forced to give to their employers in order to remain employed and historically why this goes against American ideology of free market values.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-181) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- Stephen Macedo; title: Author's preface -- -- 1.; title: When the market was "left" -- -- 2.; title: Private government --; title: Comments. -- 3.; title: Learning from the Levellers?  -- Ann Hughes ; -- 4.; title: Market rationalization  -- David Bromwich ; -- 5.; title: Help wanted: subordinates  -- Niko Kolodny ; -- 6.; title: Work isn't so bad after all  -- Tyler Cowen; title: Response. -- 7.; title: Reply to commentators -- Elizabeth Anderson.