Speechless: The Erosion of Free Expression in the American Workplace

In Speechless: The Erosion of Free Expression in the American Workplace , Bruce Barry shows how corporate suppression of free speech in the workplace is increasingly damaging-for individuals, their employers, and for civil society as a whole. Using illuminating case studies and trenchant analysis, Barry outlines the substantial legal limits to free speech rights at work in the United States, and explores the many ways in which employers exercise their wide, state-sanctioned latitude to bar, censor, or chill employee speech, both during and after the work day. There are some limited legal protections covering speech on the job in public sector workplaces, Barry shows, but in the private sector, beyond protections connected with whistle blowing, unionized settings, and civil rights laws, there is for most workers no protection at all.