Introduction vii Stephen Macedo Author's Preface xix 1 When the Market Was "Left" 1 2 Private Government 37 3 Learning from the Levellers? Ann Hughes 75 4 Market Rationalization David Bromwich 89 5 Help Wanted: Subordinates Niko Kolodny 99 6 Work Isn't So Bad after All Tyler Cowen 108 7 Reply to Commentators Elizabeth Anderson 119 Notes 145 Contributors 183 Index 185
Elizabeth Anderson is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and John Dewey Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of The Imperative of Integration (Princeton) and Value in Ethics and Economics. She lives in Ann Arbor.
"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."
*Times Literary Supplement*
"Elizabeth Anderson is a philosopher on the warpath. Her Tanner
Lectures . . . take aim at the unelected, arbitrary and dictatorial
power that employers, particularly in the US where labour laws are
flimsy, hold over their work-forces. . . . [Anderson's argument
has] subtlety and force."---Philip Roscoe, Times Higher
Education
"In Private Government, Elizabeth Anderson . . . explores how the
discipline of work has itself become a form of tyranny, documenting
the expansive power that firms now wield over their employees in
everything from how they dress to what they tweet. . . . [Private
Government] 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: equality and freedom."---Miya
Tokumitsu, , The New Republic
"[Private Government] gives a clear, powerful argument for ideas
that many people will have already had in only inchoate
form."---Nate Holdren, History News Network
"[Private Government] is a well-documented, captivating discussion
that should be addressed in an interdisciplinary manner, and an
excellent starting point to make that happen."
*Choice*
"In Private Government, 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, who enjoy broad
powers of micromanagement and coercion."---Joshua Rothman,
NewYorker.com
"Elizabeth Anderson’s bold Private Government is a firm foundation
for twenty-first-century civic education in workplace democracy.
Anderson exposes the inevitably political dimensions of work. And
she leaves us in no doubt that for employees the workplace is
tyrannical, ruled by the whims of exploitative and mercurial
bosses."---Frank Pasquale, The Hedgehog Review
"I fully acknowledge that Private Government is a significant work
that could potentially reorient the political theory of economic
institutions."---Uğur Aytaç, International Dialogue
"Private Government demonstrates the attributes that have made
Anderson one of the most compelling philosophers of our time. . . .
It is, in short, deeply humane, helping us think more clearly about
who we want to become, as individuals and in our· collective lives
together. To my mind, it represents the best of political
philosophy.”"---Vafa Ghazavi, Oxford Review of Books
"Private Government is an important and timely contribution to
contemporary political theory, especially for anyone thinking about
freedom in the workplace or about reforming or replacing existing
economic institutions."---Paul Raekstad, Krisis
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