Lactation at Work
Expressed Milk, Expressing Beliefs, and the Expressive Value of Law
Published on 28. July 2021
258 pages
978-1-108-80272-7 (ISBN)
Description
In recent decades, as women entered the US workforce in increasing numbers, they faced the conundrum of how to maintain breastfeeding and hold down full-time jobs. In 2010, the Lactation at Work Law (an amendment to the US Fair Labor Standards Act) mandated accommodations for lactating women. This book examines the federal law and its state-level equivalent in Indiana, drawing on two waves of interviews with human resource personnel, supervising managers, and lactating workers. In many ways, this simple law - requiring break time and privacy for pumping - is a success story. Through advocacy by allies, education of managers, and employee initiative, many organizations created compliant accommodations. This book shows legal scholars how a successful civil rights law creates effective change; helps labor activists and management personnel understand how to approach new accommodations; and enables workers to understand the possibilities for amelioration of workplace problems through internal negotiations and legal reforms.
Reviews / Votes
'This work finds its niche among others discussing employment law, human resources, and gender equity in the workplace. ... Highly recommended.' D. Truty, ChoiceMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Worked examples or Exercises
File size
5,63 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-108-80272-7 (9781108802727)
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Elizabeth A. Hoffmann
Lactation at Work
Expressed Milk, Expressing Beliefs, and the Expressive Value of Law
Book
07/2021
Cambridge University Press
€140.70
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Content
1. Introduction; 2. Lactation law as public policy; 3. Expressed frustration: noncompliant, insufficient, and inconsistent accommodations; 4. Milk and management: substantive compliance through managerialization; 5. Allies already: supportive human resource specialists and supervising managers; 6. Moralizing the law: listening in the shadow of the law and the transformation of supervising managers; 7. Conclusion; Appendix A. State and federal lactation at work laws; Appendix B. Methodology and research strategy.
