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Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Politics with Michelle Grattan: Josh Bornstein on how big companies are taking away employees’ private rights

Governments around the world are battling to regulate big tech companies. As the world becomes more interconnected, people are increasingly aware of the vast, often negative, influence these companies play in our lives.

More generally, many corporations extend their power over their employees to their non-work lives.

Josh Bornstein is a lawyer specialising in employment and labour relations law. His new book, titled Working for the Brand: how corporations are destroying free speech, examines the problematic reach of the corporate hand into the private sphere.

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