But now consider the example offered by Adina Schwartz. Imagine that workers preferred to work highly routinized, unchallenging, and boring jobs. Do employers-have a responsibility to eliminate such jobs, even if there are some employees who would be willing to fill them? Two options are open for liberals at this point. They could argue that as long as no one is forcing employees to work such jobs, as long as they are free from external constraint, employers have no responsibility to eliminate such jobs. This answer would reduce the liberal position to a narrower libertarian understanding of freedom in the workplace. But it also would accept the ethical legitimacy of employment conditions that tend to frustrate the very fundamental values—autonomous and free choice—that liberals hold dear. Social conditions of routinized, unchallenging, boring jobs tend to suppress the human faculties of rational and autonomous choice. On the other hand, if liberals argue that employers do have a responsibility to eliminate such jobs, then they acknowledge that employee choice alone is not the final factor for determining what constitutes an ethical workplace. This is to acknowledge that the conditions that create an ethical workplace are those that tend to encourage and advance the human good, at least as understood in minimal terms of the ability to make reasoned and autonomous choices. This conclusion opens the door to a wider discussion of those conditions necessary or conducive to the good of employees. Such conditions can be identified as a liberal theory of employee rights and employer responsibilities. Chapter 6 con¬siders several of these potential rights.