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Working Together - How Workplace Bonds Strengthen a Diverse Democracy (Paperback, New ed)
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Working Together - How Workplace Bonds Strengthen a Diverse Democracy (Paperback, New ed)
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The typical workplace is a hotbed of human relationships-of
friendships, conflicts, feuds, alliances, partnerships, coexistence
and cooperation. Here, problems are solved, progress is made, and
rifts are mended because they need to be - because the work has to
get done. And it has to get done among increasingly diverse groups
of co-workers. At a time when communal ties in American society are
increasingly frayed and segregation persists, the workplace is more
than ever the site where Americans from different ethnic,
religious, and racial backgrounds meet and forge serviceable and
sometimes lasting bonds. What do these highly structured workplace
relationships mean for a society still divided by gender and race?
Structure and rules are, in fact, central to the answer. Workplace
interactions are constrained by economic power and necessity, and
often by legal regulation. They exist far from the civic ideal of
free and equal citizens voluntarily associating for shared ends.
Yet it is the very involuntariness of these interactions that helps
to make the often-troubled project of racial integration
comparatively successful at work. People can be forced to get
along-not without friction, but often with surprising success. This
highly original exploration of the paradoxical nature-and the
paramount importance-of workplace bonds concludes with concrete
suggestions for how law can further realize the democratic
possibilities of working together. In linking workplace integration
and connectedness beyond work, Estlund suggests a novel and
promising strategy for addressing the most profound challenges
facing American society.
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