From the book:
‘In her second lecture, Anderson advances her central and most arresting claim: that the modern industrial firm amounts to a system of arbitrary and unaccountable “private government” and “dictatorship”:
“Most workers in the United States are governed by communist dictatorships in their work lives. Usually, those dictatorships have the legal authority to regulate workers’ off-hour lives as well—their political activities, speech, choice of sexual partner, use of recreational drugs, alcohol, smoking, and exercise.… [M]ost employers exercise this offhours authority irregularly, arbitrarily, and without warning.… [O]nly about half of U.S. workers enjoy even partial protection of their off-duty speech from employer meddling.”
Anderson argues that private government exists when people are subject, in some part of their lives, to authorities that can order them around and impose sanctions for noncompliance. In the workplace, moreover, governing authorities have arbitrary and unaccountable power over workers.’
Excerpt from: “Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It)” by Elizabeth Anderson. Scribd.
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