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Apr 4, 2019 · But the right to work fewer hours or to quit altogether, Anderson points out, is not freedom or self-determination. Meaningful labor law reform should revive and expand the hiring hall so that workers can protect themselves from exploitative conditions in the gig economy today.
May 23, 2017 · "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
May 15, 2017 · "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."
- May 15, 2017
Jan 9, 2019 · For Anderson, the nation is an ‘imagined community’ and national identity a construction assembled through symbols and rituals in relation to territorial and administrative categories. National identities are intrinsically connected to, and constituted by, forms of communication.
The pithy title itself, Private Government, indicates Anderson's radical proposal for how workplace oppression and subordination should be framed and conceptualized -- namely, by treating corporate governance structures as a form of private (we might say "privatized") government.
Because the restrictions on (negative) freedom in private firms do not correspond with republican freedoms in democratic states, Elizabeth Ander-son likens firms to “communist dictatorships”, a strong term she applies to draw at-tention to the considerable power firms exercise over their employees.
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Dec 5, 2019 · Fast forward a couple of centuries, and the picture looks very different: every day, millions of workers subject themselves to the authority of unelected, unaccountable employers – Anderson calls this “private government”, and one in four Americans describe it as a “dictatorship”.
