Symposia: Private Government

LPE Originals

Envisioning Worker Voice in the Private Government(s) of the Twenty-First Century

By Amanda Jaret

Anderson’s analysis is insufficiently attentive to the structural realities of the “fissured workplace.”

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On Reuniting Legal Realism with Moral Pragmatism

By Luke Herrine

Concepts like “freedom” and “exploitation” are grounded in material reality–as historically embedded attempts to express attitudes about certain institutional arrangements

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Rethinking Public and Private Power: Anderson’s Private Government and Labor Law Reform

By Catherine L. Fisk

Three potential strategies the labor movement could adopt to combat private domination at work.

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Workplace Autocracy in an Era of Fissuring

By Cynthia Estlund

Technology and automation are key forces spinning workers away from from powerful, resourceful firms into the cracks of the fissured workplace.

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Worker Voice, Worker Power

By Charles Du

Some reflections on practical lessons that labor law practitioners and academics might draw from Elizabeth Anderson’s work.

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Democratizing the Workplace

By Frank Pasquale

This post opens a symposium on Elizabeth Anderson’s Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk about It).