# Do Employers Rule Our Lives? **URL:** **By** Elizabeth Anderson, Aaron Ross Powell, Trevor Burrus **Published:** November 17, 2017 --- Elizabeth Anderson joins us to talk about her new book, _Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk About It)_. Elizabeth Anderson joins us to talk about her new book, _Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk About It)_. How has the nature of employment changed throughout history? Is the typical American workplace a dictatorship? Do we need a worker's bill of rights? **Show Notes and Further Reading** Anderson's book [is available here](https://www.amazon.com/Private-Government-Employers-University-Center/dp/0691176515). Here's our previous episode with Prof. Anderson, [on egalitarianism and the distribution of resources in a society](https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/free-thoughts/equality-of-capabilities-or-equality-of-outcomes).