Freedom in the Workplace? (English, Gertrude Ezorsky)

About the Book

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. Older, sick workers are forced to stay in exhausting jobs to be eligible for pensions. Ezorsky shows that the notions of freedom held by most contemporary social scientists and philosophers are far t…

ISBN: 9780801445798