

Politics at Work
How Companies Turn Their Workers into Lobbyists
Author: Alexander Hertel-Fernandez
Narrator: Chris Sorensen
Unabridged: 10 hr 32 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 07/31/2018
Synopsis
Hertel-Fernandez shows that while employer political recruitment has some benefits for American democracy, it also has troubling implications for our democratic system. Workers face considerable pressure to respond to their managers' political requests because of the economic power employers possess over workers. In spite of these worrisome patterns, Hertel-Fernandez found that corporate managers view the mobilization of their own workers as an important strategy for influencing politics. As he shows, companies consider mobilization of their workers to be even more effective at changing public policy than making campaign contributions or buying electoral ads.