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Consider <https://books.google.com/books?id=JR5VDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA38&lpg=PA38&dq=private+government+elizabeth+anderson+%22dress+code%22&source=bl&ots=9Co-80ybWX&sig=RCZANLMXws0eCr4sBfip1SuCW-Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwil38DJ7eDVAhWOZiYKHX5rC2YQ6AEIUTAL#v=onepage&q=private%20government%20elizabeth%20anderson%20%22dress%20code%22&f=false>: in many US workplaces employers can enforce a dress code, read your emails, record your phone conversations, inspect your personal belongings, subject you to random drug tests, forbid casual conversations with fellow workers, prevent you from using the bathroom, and penalize you for any infraction of these rules. They have authority not just over wages, benefits, and hours but the technology that will be used and the products that will be produced. And thanks to at-will employment <http://www.ncsl.org/research/labor-and-employment/at-will-employment-overview.aspx> — the standard in American labor contracts — they can terminate you for everything from posting on Facebook <http://www.businessinsider.com/17-people-who-were-fired-for-using-facebook-2014-7> or failing to exercise <http://webapps.dol.gov/FederalRegister/HtmlDisplay.aspx?DocId=26880&AgencyId=8&DocumentType=2> to having premarital sex <http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/03/05/teri_james_says_san_diego_christian_college_fired_her_for_fornication_but.html> , being too attractive <http://abcnews.go.com/Business/iowa-woman-fired-attractive-back-moves/story?id=19851803>, or engaging in political activism <https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2017/05/15/activist-resigns-from-her-job-after-congressman-writes-letter-employer/535DUbmZ8TgYt3huc8e1fK/story.html> . Yet because these autocratic decisions are typically viewed as the result of an especially unfair boss — as a case, say, of wrongful termination — their basic foundation in the capitalist economy goes unexamined. The essential problem here isn’t that an employer might treat their workers unfairly: it’s that an economic relationship in which employers call all the shots makes a mockery of the question of fairness itself. It’s that employers hold all the cards, whether or not they act with magnanimity. Because of the property relations that form the basis of capitalist power, workers get to keep their jobs only so long as the boss decides, for whatever reason, not to fire them. Short of that, management can deploy any number of punitive measures — demotion, pay cuts, bad hours — to discipline workers who step out of line. Which brings us back to Kaepernick. http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/45500-how-to-stand-with-colin-kaepernick _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
