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The Cowboy Code Meets The Smash Mouth Truth: Meditations On Worker Incivility, Michael C. Duff
The Cowboy Code Meets The Smash Mouth Truth: Meditations On Worker Incivility, Michael C. Duff
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This symposium essay argues that workers must face up and wake up to the emerging real world of perpetual employment vulnerability. Clinging to the faith that those who govern us will abide by simple moral codes simply will not do in this world. Workers must resist forces promoting vulnerability and internalize a steely and clear-eyed ethic of self-defense in response to the smash mouth truth of this challenging new environment. Workers and dissidents must not shrink when their frank opposition to the status quo is cabined and marginalized as “incivility.” The law — and I focus in the essay on …