Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It) Lin-Manuel Miranda's smash Broadway musical

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Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It) Lin-Manuel Miranda's smash Broadway musicalWhy 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