Private Government – LPE Project https://lpeproject.org The Law and Political Economy Project Wed, 12 Oct 2022 21:15:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://lpeproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-LPE_Favicon_512px_BlackBG-450x450.png Private Government – LPE Project https://lpeproject.org 32 32 Envisioning Worker Voice in the Private Government(s) of the Twenty-First Century https://lpeproject.org/blog/envisioning-worker-voice-in-the-private-governments-of-the-twenty-first-century/ Mon, 15 Apr 2019 11:00:29 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=2240 This post is part of a symposium on Elizabeth Anderson’s Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk about It). Read the complete symposium here. For those of us who are interested in law and political economy, seeing a political philosopher of Elizabeth Anderson’s stature dedicate her Tanner Lectures to labor issues is deeply gratifying. In the lectures...

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]]> On Reuniting Legal Realism with Moral Pragmatism https://lpeproject.org/blog/on-reuniting-legal-realism-with-moral-pragmatism/ Fri, 05 Apr 2019 11:17:21 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=2168 This post is part of a symposium on Elizabeth Anderson’s Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk about It). Read the complete symposium here. In 1987 Robert Gordon recounted finding among those “in the center or left of American liberalism…this paralysis, founded in their sense that legal and social realities are frozen, that we have reached the end of history and...

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]]> Rethinking Public and Private Power: Anderson’s Private Government and Labor Law Reform https://lpeproject.org/blog/rethinking-public-and-private-power-andersons-private-government-and-labor-law-reform/ Thu, 04 Apr 2019 11:30:57 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=2195 This post is part of a symposium on Elizabeth Anderson’s Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk about It). Read the complete symposium here. Elizabeth Anderson has gained rock star status as the leading philosopher-critic of rising economic inequality and its threat to democratic society. In her second Tanner Lecture, Anderson provides one of the most exciting...

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]]> Workplace Autocracy in an Era of Fissuring https://lpeproject.org/blog/workplace-autocracy-in-an-era-of-fissuring/ Wed, 03 Apr 2019 11:30:45 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=2161 This post is part of a symposium on Elizabeth Anderson’s Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk about It). Read the complete symposium here. Elizabeth Anderson’s deeply thoughtful book, Private Government, aims to bring the problem of workplace hierarchy and “the pervasiveness of authoritarian governance in our work and off-hours lives” back onto the front burner...

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]]> Worker Voice, Worker Power https://lpeproject.org/blog/worker-voice-worker-power/ Tue, 02 Apr 2019 11:30:53 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=2123 This post is part of a symposium on Elizabeth Anderson’s Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk about It). Read the complete symposium here. Every day, as in-house counsel for an activist, organizing union, I listen to workers’ stories of the indignities that come with being subject to the arbitrary power of their employers: being forced to work through breaks and...

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]]> Democratizing the Workplace https://lpeproject.org/blog/democratizing-the-workplace/ Mon, 01 Apr 2019 10:13:59 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=2091 This post opens a symposium on Elizabeth Anderson’s Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk about It). Read the rest of the symposium here. Work can go wrong in many ways. Ship breakers in Bangladesh routinely die as they try to dismantle abandoned vessels with acetylene torches. Meat cutters in Iowa suffer repetitive stress injuries during twelve-hour shifts on...

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