Handbook of Employment Discrimination Research (eBook)

Rights and Realities

Robert L. Nelson, Laura Beth Nielsen (Herausgeber)

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2008 | 2008
XX, 461 Seiten
Springer New York (Verlag)
978-0-387-09467-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This volume contains a collection of original papers by leading legal scholars and social scientists that develop new perspectives on anti-discrimination law, with an emphasis on employment discrimination. The articles were written for a conference held at Stanford Law School in Spring 2003 that was sponsored by the American Bar Foundation and Stanford Law School. The purpose of that conference, this volume, and ongoing work by the Discrimination Research Group based at the American Bar FoundationandtheCenterforAdvancedStudyintheBehavioralSciencesistoadvance the social scienti?c understanding of employment discrimination and the operation of employment discrimination law as a social system, and to consider the legal and policy implications of this emerging body of social science. Now is a pivotal moment for an attempt at a deeper understanding of discrimi- tion and law. After three decades of theoretical development and empirical research onemploymentdiscriminationanditstreatmentinlaw,itiscrucialthatlawyers,social scientists,andpolicymakersassesswhatweknowanddonotknowaboutemployment discrimination and its treatment by law. To date, there are several streams of active research that only occasionally engage with each other. Economists and sociologists continue to debate the extent to which women, minorities, and other traditionally disadvantagedgroupsfacediscriminationinlabormarketsandorganizations. Orga- zation scholars and legal scholars have begun to map the effect of anti-discrimination law on organizational structures and processes, and to raise questions about the extent to which the legalization of organizational employment systems represents symbolic or substantive changes in employment practices.

Inhalt

Table of Contents 6
Acknowledgements 9
Introduction 10
Overview: Socio-Legal Approaches to Anti- Discrimination Law 18
Scaling the Pyramid: A Sociolegal Model of Employment Discrimination Litigation 19
Law’s Role in Addressing Complex Discrimination 51
What We Know about the Problem of the Century: Lessons from Social Science to the Law, and Back 74
Debating the Prevalence and Character of Discrimination 87
Including Mechanisms in our Models of Ascriptive Inequality 88
Understanding the Sources of Ethnic and Racial Wage Gaps and Their Implications for Policy 111
Discrimination in Consummated Car Purchases 149
Racial Equality Without Equal Employment Opportunity? Lessons from a Labor Market for Professional Athletes 161
Employment Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation: Dimensions of Difference 178
Occupational Mobility Among African-Americans: Assimilation or Resegregation 199
Changing Boundaries: Historical and Social Development of Anti- Discrimination Law 211
Discrimination and Diplomacy: Recovering the Fuller National Stake in 1960s Civil Rights Reform 212
Sowing the Dragon’s Teeth: Materialization in Lesbian and Gay Anti-discrimination Rights 228
Rights or Quotas? The ADA as a Model for Disability Rights 245
Mobilizing Law: Rights Consciousness, Claiming Behaviour, and the Dynamics of Litigation 266
The Evolution of Employment Discrimination Law in the 1990s: A Preliminary Empirical Investigation 267
Perceiving and Claiming Discrimination 291
Mobilizing Employment Rights in the Workplace 306
The Intersectionality of Lived Experience and Anti- discrimination Empirical Research 329
Law at Work: The Endogenous Construction of Civil Rights 340
Discrimination against Caregivers? Gendered Family Responsibilities, Employer Practices, and Work Rewards 356
Social Psychology of Bias 378
Aversive Racism: Bias without Intention 379
Applying Social Research on Stereotyping and Cognitive Bias to Employment Discrimination Litigation: The Case of Allegations of Systematic Gender Bias at Wal- Mart Stores 396
References 410
About the Authors 452
Index 454

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.6.2008
• Zusatzinfo: XX, 461 p.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Arbeitsrecht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Employment • Law • Nation • organization • Organizations • Policy
• ISBN-10: 0-387-09467-9 / 0387094679
• ISBN-13: 978-0-387-09467-0 / 9780387094670