Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It) rising to become George Washington's

rising to become George Washington's aide-de-camp in the Continental Army

and an illustrator's note touches on both the process of the painting

and an afterword from the author

that the eyes of a giant squid evolved to see sparkling whales

Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It) rising to become George Washington'sWhy our workplaces are authoritarian private governments and why we can't see it One in four American workers says their workplace is a "dictatorship." Yet that number almost certainly would be higher if we recognized employers for what they are private governments with sweeping authoritarian power over our lives. Many employers minutely regulate workers' speech, clothing, and manners on the job, and employers often extend their authority to the off