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.
INTRODUCTION Freedom, Fairness, and the General GoodGertrude Ezorsky 1. THE RIGHT TO MEANINGFUL WORK Night Shift in a Pickle FactorySteve Turner Meaningful WorkRobert Nozick Technology and the Humanization of WorkGerald Doppelt Work and Self-RespectDiana T. Meyers Alienation and WorkKai Nielsen 2. OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY The Cotton Dust CaseAmerican Textile v. Donovan The Asbestos Industry on TrialPaul Brodeur Human Rights, Workers' Rights, and the "Right" to Occupational SafetyTibor 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 IndustryConference on Professional Responsibility Report An Anatomy of Whistle BlowingRalph Nader Freedom of ContractCoppage v. Kansas Work and Freedom in CapitalismKurt Nutting Is Motivation Management Manipulative?Raymond S. Pfeiffer Is Sexual Harassment Coercive?Larry May and John C. Hughes On Sexual Offers and ThreatsLaurence Thomas Privacy in EmploymentJoseph R. Des Jardins 4. THE RIGHT TO ORGANIZE Trade Unions: Past and FutureMichael Harrington The Union Movement and the Right to OrganizeCharles Landesman Collective Bargaining and Workers' LibertyBurton Hall The Public Worker's Right to StrikeMary Gibson A Kantian Utilitarian ApproachR. M. Hare 5. TECHNOLOGY, UNEMPLOYMENT, AND THE FLIGHT OF FACTORIES Alternatives to Industrial FlightStaughton Lynd On Alternatives to Industrial Flight: The Moral IssuesJudith Lichtenberg Robotry, Unemployment, and Work-SharingDan Lyons Is Work-Sharing Fair to Workers?Donald Levy 6. THE RIGHTS OF HEALTH CARE WORKERS Notes From a Hospital StrikePatricia Sexton The Right of Health Care Workers to StrikeJames Muyskens Nursing Ethics and Hospital WorkTziporah Kasachkoff 7. DISCRIMINATION AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION Comparable WorthHelen Remick and Ronnie J. Steinberg Groups and JusticeGeorge Sher Individual Candidate Remedies: Why They Won't WorkGertrude Ezorsky Civil Rights and Group PreferenceMorris B. Abram Affirmative ActionHerman Schwartz First Fired: Which Should Decide?Seniority or Affirmative Action SeniorityFirefighters v. Stotts Affirmative Action, With Compensation for White MalesVulcan Pioneers v. N.J. Dept. of Civil Service Affirmative Action, With Compensation for White MalesHoward Glickstein A Preventive Remedy: WorksharingU.S. Commission on Civil Rights 1977 8. WORKERS' SELF-MANAGEMENT The Spring of Freedom: Spain 1936Gaston Laval Why Should the Workplace Be Democratic?John Plamenatz Democracy in the WorkplaceRobert A. Dahl