Corporate Cancel Culture
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How does corporate culture curtail free speech? Josh Bornstein (Working for the Brand) discusses how the unchecked power of corporations is encroaching upon employees’ democratic rights, and what can be done to resist. With Gideon Haigh.
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Josh Bornstein
Josh Bornstein is an award-winning lawyer specialising in employment and labour-relations law who has successfully sued a lot of badly behaved corporations and acted for employees who were sacked for expressing political views. His articles and essays have appeared in Australia’s major media outlets, and he is a board member of the progressive think tank The Australia Institute and advisory board member of the Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law at the University of Melbourne. Working for the Brand is his first book, published by Scribe. Headshot: Eamon
Gideon Haigh
Gideon Haigh has been a journalist for almost four decades, published more than 40 books and contributed to more than 100 newspapers and magazines. His books include The Cricket Wars, The Summer Game and On Warne (which won numerous prizes) on cricket, and works on BHP, James Hardie and how abortion became legal in Australia. His book The Office: A Hardworking History won the NSW Premier’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction. He has appeared widely on radio and TV. He lives in Melbourne.
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