Private governmentElizabeth Anderson
Private government
by Elizabeth Anderson · first published 2017
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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.
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…whether that infringement is being done by publicly sanctioned power, or the whim of the arbitrary, domineering power of private (tech) actors. Elizabeth Anderson has written quite well on this topic in "Private Government."
on “70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers” ↗I would very much recommend Private Government by Elizabeth Anderson (specifically, chapter 2). It's a relatively short read, and very relevant to your comment. Personally, I found the book quite enlightening, it gives a very different perspective…
on “HR is not your friend, and other things I think you should know” ↗You may be interested in reading Private Government by Elizabeth Anderson. In it, she explores the scope and implications of employer power in the US and compares them with the power of governments.
on “Google illegally spied on workers before firing them, US labor board alleges” ↗> i think this is expecting to much from corporate america. I'll push back on this by adding something from the book, Private Government by Elizabeth Anderson: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691176512/pr.... She makes the case, with evidence and history, how no one in America can get by without using corporations to survive.…
on “Do I Regret Being 'Just' a Software Engineer?” ↗For anyone who is concerned about the level of authoritarian control companies like Amazon have over employees, you might find the book Private Government worth a read: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691176512/pr...
on “Amazon worker chat app to ban words such as “union”, “pay raise”, “slave labor”” ↗…from his ideological dispositions, he mostly dismisses their arguments without the same rigor that he defends those within his biases. His conversation with Elizabeth Anderson on workplaces as a form of private government is a good example of this: https://www.econtalk.org/elizabeth-anderson-on-worker-rights...
on “Which firms profit most from America’s health-care system (2018)” ↗…>Incidentally, there’s an interesting book that just came out finally, says some of the obvious things about this, by a woman named Elizabeth Anderson. She’s a philosopher and an economist. It’s called Private Government or some name like that, but her point is that, which is a major point, yes, there is a government, but governments can be repressive. But most of our lives are under private government, which she says…
on “Google CEO Sundar Pichai warns employees: Don't get too political” ↗…shouldn’t the place you spend so much time and effort for be democratically governed? what’s the argument that government should be, but industry shouldn’t? that’s the whole basis of Elizabeth Anderson’s “Private Government”
on “I spoke with a Google worker fired for protesting $1.2B Israel contract” ↗Title: please note this is a review of the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Private-Government-Employers-Universi... Aside: If you like to compare-contrast US<->EU, I found this paper interesting: Why Doesn’t The US Have A European-Style Welfare State? (2001) https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/glaeser/files/why_doesnt_t....
on “Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives and Why We Don't Talk about It” ↗