The Politics of Coercion in the Workplace

Workers are punished for smoking or drinking in the privacy of their own homes. At home, they can be firedor carry on extra marital affairs,. participating in group sex at home, cross dressing and more. This is all legal in many states but laws are often weak. While employers en abridge worker's liberty off the job, those abridgments assume a larger function for the state. The instruments of coercion can be outsourced to or shared with the private sector.