Whistleblowers : : Broken Lives and Organizational Power / / C. Fred Alford.

In a dark departure from our standard picture of whistleblowers, C. Fred Alford offers a chilling account of the world of people who have come forward to protest organizational malfeasance in government agencies and in the private sector. The conventional story-high-minded individual fights soulless...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2017]
©2016
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (192 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Don't Just Do It to Save Lives
  • 3. Whistleblowers' Narratives: Stuck in Static Time
  • 4. Whistleblower Ethics: Narcissism Moralized
  • 5. Implications of Whistleblower Ethics for Ethical Theory
  • 6. Organized Thoughtlessness
  • 7. The Political Theory of Sacrifice
  • Appendix on Problems of Confidentiality
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index