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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Many modern workplaces have deeply authoritarian governance structures.
Chapter 3: Despite broad limits, employers still wield far-reaching dictatorial power over our lives.
Chapter 4: Workers retain the right to leave their jobs, yet their ability to do so is heavily constrained.
Chapter 5: The reach of an employer’s power is far greater than many of us realize.
Chapter 6: The problem with the modern workplace isn’t that it has government; it’s the exact sort of government it has.
Chapter 7: The problem with the modern workplace is that it’s ruled by private government rather than by a public one.
Chapter 8: The solution to the problem of private governance is to make workplaces more democratic.
Chapter 9: Workplace authoritarianism frequently gets ignored because of low levels of public awareness.
Chapter 10: Many of us still remain captivated by outdated notions about how labor markets work.
Chapter 11: The Industrial Revolution eroded the early promises of capitalism’s market system.
Description
Private Government (2017) boldly asserts a provocative thesis: most modern companies are run more like communist dictatorships than the “free enterprises” their often libertarian-minded owners, managers, and defenders believe them to be. Drawing on a wide range of ideas, facts, and data from economics, political philosophy, and history, Private Government backs this thesis up with a strong, compelling argument that’s well worth reckoning with.
Who Should Listen
- Employees unhappy with their employment
- Employers wondering why their employees might be so unhappy
- Anyone else wanting to know what’s wrong with the modern workplace