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This 5-page essay discusses Barbara Ehrenreich's essay, "Zipped Lips," and determines if the author's conclusions were valid or if she was simply blowing a great deal of hot air. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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when it comes to employee free speech. She points out several things, namely, that the cases she cited (the Dallas grocery-store clerk
for wearing a Green Bay Packers jersey) and the Caterpillar factory worker for wearing the UAW-sloganed t-shirt while on the job were both examples of violations of free speech.
She points out, also, that the guardians of free speech (such as the Anti-Defamation League and the ACLU) tend to be conspicuously absent
when it comes to employer-employee problems, while they go about defending "crackpots" such as Afrocentrist professor Leonard Jeffries and others. This, she points out, makes no sense.
Additionally, she points out, while freedom of speech is the "national rallying cry," "unfreedom is, for many people, the price of economic survival." While liberty
is precious, we regularly, she also points out, for eight hours a day, sell that liberty in exchange for a paycheck. But
the economy, she concludes, could benefit from an increase in democracy on the shop floor. "Surely no one really believes productivity would nose-dive if employees were free to wear team
logos of their choice or, for that matter, to raise the occasional question about management priorities," she adds. The problem that Ehrenreich
has with her arguments are the problems that a lot of other people have when it comes to similar arguments about employees being able to "spout their creativity" while on
work premises. For example, her contention that the wearing of a team logo would not impact productivity isnt correct. In the case of the Dallas store clerk above, it not
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