ChangeThis manifesto

Freedom, Inc. Manifesto by Brian M. Carney & Isaac Getz DECEMBER 9, 2009 “From Genesis ‘in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread’ to Marx’s ‘the proletariat has nothing to lose but its chains,’ work has always been seen as a constraint and the workplace as a...
WSJ op-ed on Stress

WSJ op-ed on Stress

Instead of Stress, Worker Freedom: We Are Micromanaging Our Employees to Death by Isaac Getz SEPTEMBER 21, 2009 If President Nicolas Sarkozy wants Frenchmen to be happy, he might worry less about how many vacation days they get, and more about the crushing...
WSJ op-ed on Royal Mail

WSJ op-ed on Royal Mail

Free the Workers, Fix the Post Office by Brian M. Carney & Isaac Getz OCTOBER 30, 2009 This month’s disruptive strikes at the Royal Mail are the fifth such industrial actions to hit the post office in the past 30 years. As we went to press it was still...
WSJ op-ed on Govt Employee Ideas

WSJ op-ed on Govt Employee Ideas

Obama’s Federal Suggestion Box by Brian M. Carney & Isaac Getz MAY 1, 2009 President Barack Obama is proposing what amounts to a giant suggestion box for government workers: “We’ll establish a process through which every government worker can...
WSJ op-ed on FAVI

WSJ op-ed on FAVI

Workers of Europe, Innovate ! by Brian M. Carney JULY 25, 2005 Hallencourt, France — In this hamlet in the north of France, Jean-Francois Zobrist leads the sort of company that isn’t supposed to exist any more in high-tax, high-cost socialist Europe....