SOCI 312 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Negative Liberty, Workplace Democracy, Market Power
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Anderson, private government: how employers rule our lives (and why we don"t. The economic system of the modern workplace exercises a communist regime. The establishment owns all the assets, and the top of the establishment hierarchy designs the production plan, which subordinates execute. Boundary of the firm is defined as the point at which markets end and authoritarian centralized planning and direction begin. Employers determined to keep out unions immediately fire any workers who dare mention them, and the costs of litigation make it impossible for workers to hold them accountable for this. We need to revive the concept of private government. Government exists wherever some have the authority to issue orders to others. The modern state is merely one form of government among others. Private from you = none of your business. Private to you = your business, you may exclude others from making it any of theirs.