WORK AND THE PUBLIC PRIVATE DICHOTOMY

An opposition between public and private, between the State and civil society, permeates today's conceptualization of society. The author re flects upon that opposition and its implications for the organization of employment relationships. He shows that the vision of a public sphe re losing ground to the values and methods of the private is misleadin g. What is actually happening, he argues, is more in the nature of a r estructuring of relations between the private and public spheres. The central issue is the redefinition of public interest values common to both.