Work, Inc.: a philosophical inquiry

Abstract

Introduction 1. Corporations and Communities Corporation and Community in America Reign of Business Necessity Indiana: A Crossroads of Corporate America Corporations and Communities Abroad Part I: Worker and Community 2. Work and Play: Obscurity of Obligation Forced Labor in Fact and in Philosophy Work Ethic and Social Contract Work in Utopia 3. Whose Work? Which Ethic? The Work Ethic: Weber's Managerial Myth Work and Duty: Is Work Obligatory? Work and Virtue: Craft Pride Work and Pleasure: Quest for Leisure 4. Work and Welfare: A Crisis of Responsibility Work and Benefits Responsibility for the Unemployed Part II: Worker and Corporation 5. Meaningful Work: A Two-Edged Sword Meaning or Manipulation? A Question of Control Politics of Job Classification Organization of Work Work Rules and the Division of Labor Job Control Work and Creativity 6. Worker Organizations Worker Organization and Liberty Whether Unions Unduly Restrain the Liberty of Employers Whether Unions Unduly Constrain the Liberty of Employees Worker Organization and Power Economic Power of Guilds Economic Power of Unions 7. Equal Opportunity Employment? Toward Getting a Job and Keeping It Preemployment Testing Seniority Rights Employment Rights Taking on the World What Ever Happened to Meritocracy? 8. Automation: Laborsaving or Dehumanization? Robot Revolution Impact of Microelectronics on Employment Engineering Unemployment: Motives in the Madness Part III: Corporation and Community 9. Corporation and Community in American Law Private Property and Corporate Property Who Controls Corporate Property? Community Control over Corporate Property 10. Ideology of Corporate Autonomy Unilateral Justifications of Development Mythology of Progress Progress and Social Welfare Rawlsian Justice: A Liberal Dose of Social Welfare 11. Global Justice and Corporation-Community Relations Dramatis Personae Global Justice: An Offer That Can't be Refused? Community: If Not in Cities, Where? Conclusions Notes Index