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Towards a more authoritarian labour market – without freedom of expression?

“This is not only about their working life. It is about their lives,” says Dag Yngve Dahle, who has written a book on the freedom of expression in working life together with Maria Amelie, called ‘Moderne munnkurv’, or Modern muzzle. They look at what happens to people who have been accused of a breach of loyalty to their employer.

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Modern muzzle

Dag Yngve Dahle (above) has written the book Moderne munnkurv (Modern muzzle) together with Maria Amelie. It looks at Norwegian employees’ freedom of expression, and list a range of examples of workers being reprimanded by employers for talking about their workplace. The author is pictured next to the Oslo City Hall, where some of the construction workers from the 1930s became models for Per Palle Storm’s sculptures. Are employees equally valued today?

Moderne Munnkurv

Maria Amelie

Maria Amelie

is the book’s co-author. She is also the author of Ulovlig norsk (Illegally Norwegian) and Takk (Thank You), which created a lot of debate about Norwegian asylum policies in 2011. During the past five years she has been working as a journalist focusing on the labour market, technology and entrepreneurship. In 2015 she was named Norway’s best startup journalist.

Dag Yngve Dahle has previously written Orden og oppførsel. Karakterer på jobben? (Order and behaviour. Grades at work?) (2014). He is a sociologist and journalist and works on a PhD on collective decision making in the workplace.

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