Precarious Claims (eBook)

The Promise and Failure of Workplace Protections in the United States

Shannon Gleeson (Autor)

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2016
190 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96360-3 (ISBN)

Infos

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Precarious Claimstells the human story behind the bureaucratic process of fighting for justice in the U.S. workplace. The global economy has fueled vast concentrations of wealth that have driven a demand for cheap and flexible labor. Workplace violations such as wage theft, unsafe work environments, and discrimination are widespread in low-wage industries such as retail, restaurants, hospitality, and domestic work, where jobs are often held by immigrants and other vulnerable workers. How and whydothese workers, despite enormous barriers, come forward to seek justice, and what happens once they do?Based on extensive fieldwork in Northern California, Gleeson investigates the array of gatekeepers with whom workers must negotiate in the labor standards enforcement bureaucracy and, ultimately, the limited reach of formal legal protections. The author also tracks how workplace injusticesand the arduous process of contesting themcarry long-term effects on their everyday lives. Workers sometimes win, but their chances are precarious at best.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction
2. Inequality and Power at Work
3. The Landscape and Logics of Worker Protections
4. Navigating Bureaucracies
5. The Aftermath of Legal Mobilization
6. Conclusion

Notes
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Index 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.9.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Arbeitsrecht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: american labor laws • equal employment protection • immigrant workers • inequality and power at work • labor and employment in the us • labor issues in the us • Labor Organization • race and ethnicity in low paying jobs • unsafe work environments • vulnerable workers in the us • wage theft • worker organization • worker protections • working class issues • working class rights • workplace issues in low wage occupations • workplace issues in the us
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96360-1 / 0520963601
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96360-3 / 9780520963603