Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It) and an afterword from the

and an afterword from the author

out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times--the improbable

and an illustrator's note touches on both the process of the painting

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Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It) and an afterword from theWhy our workplaces are authoritarian private governments and why we can't see it One in four American workers says their workplace is a "dictatorship." Yet that number almost certainly would be higher if we recognized employers for what they are private governments with sweeping authoritarian power over our lives. Many employers minutely regulate workers' speech, clothing, and manners on the job, and employers often extend their authority to the off