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Private Government : How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It) Washington State Book Award (2004) convinced that what the localWhy our workplaces are authoritarian private governments and why we can't see itOne in four American workers says their workplace is a "dictatorship." Yet that number probably would be even higher if we recognized most employers for what they are private governments with sweeping authoritarian power over our lives, on duty and off. We normally think of government as something only the state does, yet many of us are governed far more and far more