To respond to the challenge based on property rights it is helpful to distin¬guish those businesses that are privately owned from publicly traded incor¬porated businesses. A private business owner does have property rights that include rights to manage and direct the business. However, as we have seen several times previously, property rights are not absolute and can be legiti¬mately restricted by the rights of others. I surely cannot manage my property in ways that cause significant harm to others. For example, while I own my own home, zoning laws prohibit me from using it as a business location or as a boarding house, and regulate such things as the size, shape, and location of my house. Likewise, I cannot claim the right to manage my business property in ways that harm my employees. If arguments for workplace democracy such as those offered by McCall are valid, then ownership rights alone are not sufficient to overcome employee rights not to be treated as mere human resources to be managed for the economic benefit of owners.