Moral Rights in the Workplace

Edited by Gertrude Ezorsky

Subjects: Philosophy
Paperback : 9780887063633, 324 pages, June 1972
Hardcover : 9780887063626, 324 pages, November 1986

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Table of contents

INTRODUCTION

Freedom, Fairness, and the General Good
Gertrude Ezorsky

1. THE RIGHT TO MEANINGFUL WORK

Night Shift in a Pickle Factory
Steve Turner

Meaningful Work
Robert Nozick

Technology and the Humanization of Work
Gerald Doppelt

Work and Self-Respect
Diana T. Meyers

Alienation and Work
Kai Nielsen

2. OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY

The Cotton Dust Case
American Textile v. Donovan

The Asbestos Industry on Trial
Paul Brodeur

Human Rights, Workers' Rights, and the "Right" to Occupational Safety
Tibor R. Machan

Does OSHA Protect Too Much?
Norman Daniels

Are Disadvantaged Workers Who Take Hazardous Jobs Forced to Take Hazardous Jobs?
G. A. Cohen

3. FREEDOM, COERCION, AND THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY

Whistle Blowing: The AMA and the Pharmaceutical Industry
Conference on Professional Responsibility Report

An Anatomy of Whistle Blowing
Ralph Nader

Freedom of Contract
Coppage v. Kansas

Work and Freedom in Capitalism
Kurt Nutting

Is Motivation Management Manipulative?
Raymond S. Pfeiffer

Is Sexual Harassment Coercive?
Larry May and John C. Hughes

On Sexual Offers and Threats
Laurence Thomas

Privacy in Employment
Joseph R. Des Jardins

4. THE RIGHT TO ORGANIZE

Trade Unions: Past and Future
Michael Harrington

The Union Movement and the Right to Organize
Charles Landesman

Collective Bargaining and Workers' Liberty
Burton Hall

The Public Worker's Right to Strike
Mary Gibson

A Kantian Utilitarian Approach
R. M. Hare

5. TECHNOLOGY, UNEMPLOYMENT, AND THE FLIGHT OF FACTORIES

Alternatives to Industrial Flight
Staughton Lynd

On Alternatives to Industrial Flight: The Moral Issues
Judith Lichtenberg

Robotry, Unemployment, and Work-Sharing
Dan Lyons

Is Work-Sharing Fair to Workers?
Donald Levy

6. THE RIGHTS OF HEALTH CARE WORKERS

Notes From a Hospital Strike
Patricia Sexton

The Right of Health Care Workers to Strike
James Muyskens

Nursing Ethics and Hospital Work
Tziporah Kasachkoff

7. DISCRIMINATION AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

Comparable Worth
Helen Remick and Ronnie J. Steinberg

Groups and Justice
George Sher

Individual Candidate Remedies: Why They Won't Work
Gertrude Ezorsky

Civil Rights and Group Preference
Morris B. Abram

Affirmative Action
Herman Schwartz

First Fired: Which Should Decide?
Seniority or Affirmative Action

Seniority
Firefighters v. Stotts

Affirmative Action, With Compensation for White Males
Vulcan Pioneers v. N.J. Dept. of Civil Service

Affirmative Action, With Compensation for White Males
Howard Glickstein

A Preventive Remedy: Worksharing
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights 1977

8. WORKERS' SELF-MANAGEMENT

The Spring of Freedom: Spain 1936
Gaston Laval

Why Should the Workplace Be Democratic?
John Plamenatz

Democracy in the Workplace
Robert A. Dahl

Description

This book focuses on the moral problems that arise for people who labor in ordinary places -- factories, schools, mines, stores, and farms. Moral Rights in the Workplace examines problems of freedom and coercion that develop on the job, issues of the right to meaningful work, occupational health and safety, whistleblowing, the right to union organization, unemployment, and the flight of factories, the rights of health care workers, and workers' self-management. Issues of employment discrimination such as comparable worth, seniority, affirmative action, and worksharing that have been given scant attention in other books are also discussed.

Gertrude Ezorsky is Professor of Philosophy at Brooklyn College of The City University of New York. She is the author of Philosophical Perspectives on Punishment, also published by SUNY Press.