Working as Equals

Description

This volume of essays by leading moral and political philosophers explores questions about justice in the workplace and contributes to lively debates about work taking place within political philosophy and business ethics. The essays push the relational egalitarian tradition in new directions, helping to show its promise and its limits. At a time of widening inequality and rapid change in the nature of work, the volume addresses issues of current and future concern.

• Gathers essays by senior and emerging scholars in political philosophy and business ethics
• Broadens and deepens our understanding of equality at work
• Addresses relational equality by focusing on its implications for social relations at work

About the Author(s)

Edited by Julian David Jonker, Assistant Professor of Legal Studies & Business Ethics, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and Grant J. Rozeboom, Assistant Professor of Business Ethics and Social Responsibility, Saint Mary's College of California

Julian David Jonker is Assistant Professor of Legal Studies & Business Ethics at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include relational normativity and private law theory, the philosophy of work, and the social ontology of economic institutions. Grant J. Rozeboom is Assistant Professor of Business Ethics and Social Responsibility at Saint Mary's College of California. His research concerns a range of issues in normative and applied ethics, and he has published papers on relational equality and the workplace, the basis of moral equality, the attitude of respect for persons, and morally creditworthy motivation.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Elizabeth Anderson
1. Introduction
Grant J. Rozeboom and Julian David Jonker
2. What Is Wrong with the Commodification of Human Labor Power: The Argument from “Democratic Character”
Debra Satz
3. An Objection to Workplace Hierarchy Itself?
Niko Kolodny
4. Seeing Like a Firm: Social Equality, Conservatism, and the Aesthetics of Inequality
Pierre-Yves Néron
5. Self-Employment and Independence
Iñigo González Ricoy
6. Hobby Lobby and the Moral Structure of the Employee-Employer Relationship
David Silver
7. Justice in Human Capital
Michael Cholbi
8. Can Employers Discriminate without Treating Some Employees Worse Than Others? Discrimination, the Comparative View, and Relational Equality
Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen
9. A Cooperative Paradigm of Employment
Sabine Tsuruda
10. The Workplace as a Cooperative Institution
Julian David Jonker
11. Relational Egalitarianism, Institutionalism, and Workplace Hierarchy
Brian Berkey
12. Good Enough for Equality
Grant J. Rozeboom

Reviews

"In times of the 'big quit,' questions about workplace relations have come to the fore of public discussions again — and philosophers have turned to them as well. This volume brings together an interesting range of papers on philosophical dimensions of work, discussing both moral and institutional demands, from angles such as autonomy, reason-giving, or democracy. They are worth reading not only for where they agree but also for where they disagree, showing what normative values are at stake in the organization of work life." - Lisa Herzog, Author of Reclaiming the System: Moral Responsibility, Divided Labor, and the Role of Organizations in Society