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Freedom in the workplace? / Gertrude Ezorsky.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Ezorsky, Gertrude, 1926-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Labor market--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
Labor market.
Industrial relations--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
Industrial relations.
Quality of work life--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
Quality of work life.
Free enterprise--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
Free enterprise.
Liberty--Philosophy.
Liberty.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (103 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Are workers in the United States free? Gertrude Ezorsky traces the severe limits placed on their freedom by illegal coercion against organizing unions and by low wage offers--barely enough to feed their families--that workers are pressured to accept.
Contents:
The obstacle concept of freedom
Criticism of the obstacle concept of freedom
Social forcing
Some moral issues of proposal forcing
Systemic forcing
Criticism of previous social forcing analysis
Appendix : twentieth-century U.S. federal labor law.
Notes:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-8014-5950-8
0-8014-5979-6
OCLC:
726824332

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