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Politics at Work - How Companies Turn Their Workers into Lobbyists (Hardcover)
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Politics at Work - How Companies Turn Their Workers into Lobbyists (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Postwar American Political Development
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Employers are increasingly recruiting their workers into politics
to change elections and public policy - sometimes in coercive ways.
Using a diverse array of evidence, including national surveys of
workers and employers, as well as in-depth interviews with top
corporate managers, Politics at Work explains why mobilization of
workers has become an appealing corporate political strategy in
recent decades. The book also assesses the effect of employer
mobilization on the political process more broadly, including its
consequences for electoral contests, policy debates, and political
representation. In Politics at Work, Alexander Hertel-Fernandez
shows that while employer political recruitment has some benefits
for American democracy - for instance, getting more workers to the
polls - it also has troubling implications for other aspects of
political participation. Workers face considerable pressure to
respond to their managers' political requests because of the
economic power employers possess over workers. In spite of these
worrisome patterns, corporate managers report that mobilization of
workers is an important strategy for influencing politics. Politics
at Work documents how companies consider mobilization of their
workers to be even more effective at changing public policy than
making campaign contributions or buying electoral ads.
Hertel-Fernandez concludes by discussing when and why employer
recruitment efforts represent problematic violations of workers'
political rights. He then reviews policy proposals that could
protect workers from employer political coercion and could also win
the support of majorities of Americans. By carefully examining a
growing yet underappreciated political practice, Politics at Work
contributes to our understanding of the changing workplace, as well
as the ways that businesses influence politics in the United
States. The book offers fresh perspectives on debates over money in
politics and will be valuable to anyone interested in the
connections between inequality, public policy, and American
democracy.
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