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Dec 31, 2018 · Due to a transcription error, a previous version of this article misquoted Elizabeth Anderson. She referred to the types of labor opposed by classical liberals as “unfree labor,” not “free ...
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These are the questions posed by contemporary philosopher Elizabeth Anderson in her famous 2014 Tanner Lectures, later compiled into a short but compelling book, Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk about It) — featuring Anderson’s original lectures, critiques from other thinkers, and Anderson’s response to those critiques.
Author: Or Gozal From the Abolitionist Movement grew a distinct way of thinking about the relationship between freedom and equality. Abolitionists cast slavery as both a condition of complete un-freedom and, simultaneously, one of abject status degradation. As a result, explained professor Elizabeth Anderson during the recent Wesson Lecture, the relationship between freedom and equality became ...
Sep 23, 2021 · Chetan Cetty, University of Pennsylvania • Preface by Elizabeth Anderson, University of Michigan Elizabeth Anderson’s book, Private Government, and associated preceding publications, has generated an important debate about the lack of freedoms in and out of the workplace due to the severe imbalance of power between workers and employers. This paper identifies the economic claims made in ...
Mar 22, 2021 · 139 | Elizabeth Anderson on Equality, Work, and Ideology. Imagine two people with exactly the same innate abilities, but one is born into a wealthy family and the other is born into poverty. Or two people born into similar circumstances, but one is paralyzed in a freak accident in childhood while the other grows up in perfect health.
Apr 15, 2014 · ELIZABETH ANDERSON is John Dewey Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she has taught since 1987. After earning a B.A. at Swarthmore College in 1981 (Philosophy major, Economics minor), she studied under John Rawls at Harvard University, graduating with a Ph.D. in 1987.
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Sep 9, 2024 · Elizabeth Anderson claims that the prevailing culture of business is one of domination. “Most workplace governments in the United States are dictatorships, in which bosses. . don’t merely govern workers; they dominate them” (2017, p. xxii; italics in the original). If this diagnosis is correct, then the culture of business poses a significant threat to human liberty, as each year ...
