June 26, 2013
Rape, Work, and Friedrich Hayek
Yesterday in my inbox I found a message announcing an upcoming episode of Frontline that explores “the reality of rape on the job” for immigrant workers in American fields, farms and…
Posts filed under work
November 14, 2012
Strong and Weak Anti-Conflation
[Editors Note: This essay is part of BHL’s Symposium on Left-Libertarianism. Click on the link to see the other essays.] In an important essay, “Corporations versus the Market, or Whip Conflation…
July 12, 2012
Liberal BHLs and Labor BHLs
Our recent series of discussions on libertarianism and workplace coercion has led me to formulate yet another distinction among types of BHLs. Liberal BHLs and Labor BHLs. One way to…
July 10, 2012
Libertarianism Means Worker Empowerment
Advocates of free markets and advocates of worker empowerment often find themselves at odds, as is attested by the current controversy between Bertram, Robin, and Gourevitch on the one hand…
July 09, 2012
Libertarianism, Freedom, and Coercion
Bertram, Robin and Gourevitch (BRG) don’t think that libertarianism takes seriously enough the ways in which workers’ freedom is restricted in a capitalist economy. Jason Brennan thinks that BRG misunderstand the sort of libertarianism…
July 07, 2012
Cruelty and power
I’m mostly offline for a while so I won’t be taking part in the labor discussions for a while yet. I haven’t had time to properly think about Kevin Vallier’s…