Relational Equality and Worker Empowerment in American Workplaces

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Exploring the concept of relational equality in American workplaces and the need for restructuring the economy to empower workers through unions, contrasting with the worker involvement in European countries like Germany through co-determination. It also discusses the impact of unions on various industries, reflecting on the differences in worker confidence levels and sense of purpose between American and European workers.

Yascha Mounk and Elizabeth Anderson discuss why intersectionality and talk about privilege don’t help to build a more equal society.

Elizabeth Anderson, one of the most interesting contemporary political philosophers, is the John Dewey Distinguished University Professor at the University of Michigan. Her latest book is Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back.

In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Elizabeth Anderson discuss the impact of unionization and structures of co-determination in achieving greater workplace equality; the need for a nuanced understanding of how belonging to different social categories can affect one’s life prospects; and how structures of domination harm everyone—including those at the top.

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