
Precarious Claims
The Promise and Failure of Workplace Protections in the United States
Shannon Gleeson(Author)
University of California Press
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 30. September 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
190 pages
978-0-520-28878-2 (ISBN)
Description
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program for monographs. Precarious Claims tells 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 why do these 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 injustices-and the arduous process of contesting them-carry long-term effects on their everyday lives. Workers sometimes win, but their chances are precarious at best.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
2 line drawings, 6 tables
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
272 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-28878-2 (9780520288782)
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Shannon Gleeson
Precarious Claims
The Promise and Failure of Workplace Protections in the United States
E-Book
09/2016
1st Edition
University of California Press
€12.49
Available for download
Person
Shannon Gleeson is Associate Professor of Labor Relations, Law, and History at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University.
Content
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 References Index