Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk About It)

摘要

11 Elizabeth Andersons Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk About It) is based on her Tanner Lectures on Human Values, which she gave in 2014 at Princeton University, and the responses to her lectures by the academic community. The book begins with a clear and succinct overview that nicely lays out the primary focus, the history, and the arguments. Readers are advised to not skip the introduction.12 Andersons Tanner Lectures were designed to answer two primary questions: "Why do we talk as if workers are free at work?" and "What would be a better way to talk about the ways employers constrain workers' lives?" The author's preface explains the rationale behind the questions and how the critical responses helped her sharpen her thesis.113 Anderson's two lectures form the basis for the first two chapters. Those chapters are followed by responses from four commentators. The book's final chapter is Anderson's replies to the commentators. This structure works well and allows readers to get a good sense of the issues Anderson raises with the current state of employment; it also shows how she encounters some well-argued critiques of these ideas.