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In persuading the Supreme Court that same-sex couples have a
constitutional right to marry, the LGBT rights movement has
achieved its most important objective of the last few decades.
Throughout its history, the marriage equality movement has been
criticized by those who believe marriage rights were a conservative
cause overshadowing a host of more important issues. Now that
nationwide marriage equality is a reality, everyone who cares about
LGBT rights must grapple with how best to promote the interests of
sexual and gender identity minorities in a society that permits
same-sex couples to marry. This book brings together 12 original
essays by leading scholars of law, politics, and society to address
the most important question facing the LGBT movement today: What
does marriage equality mean for the future of LGBT rights? After
Marriage Equality explores crucial and wide-ranging social,
political, and legal issues confronting the LGBT movement,
including the impact of marriage equality on political activism and
mobilization, antidiscrimination laws, transgender rights, LGBT
elders, parenting laws and policies, religious liberty, sexual
autonomy, and gender and race differences. The book also looks at
how LGBT movements in other nations have responded to the
recognition of same-sex marriages, and what we might emulate or
adjust in our own advocacy. Aiming to spark discussion and further
debate regarding the challenges and possibilities of the LGBT
movement's future, After Marriage Equality will be of interest to
anyone who cares about the future of sexual equality.
This monograph was originally developed as a direct response to the
claim made by members of the 'Employers Group' at the 2012
International Labour Conference, namely that the right to strike is
not protected in international law, and in particular by ILO
Convention 87 on the right to freedom of association. The group's
apparent aim was to sow sufficient doubt as to the existence of an
internationally protected right so that governments might seek to
limit or prohibit the right to strike at the national level while
still claiming compliance with their international obligations. In
consequence, some governments have seized on the employers'
arguments to justify new limitations on that right. The Right to
Strike in International Law not merely refutes this claim but is
the only complete and exhaustive analysis on this subject. Based on
deep legal research, it finds that there is simply no credible
basis for the claim that the right to strike does not enjoy the
protection of international law; indeed, the authors demonstrate
that it has attained the status of customary international law.
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European Labour Law
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Teun Jaspers, Frans Pennings, Saskia Peters; Contributions by Teun Jaspers, Saskia Peters, …
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This book provides for a comprehensive overview of the various
areas of European labour law: fundamental rights, free movement of
workers and posting, equal treatment, a-typical forms of
employment, collective bargaining and collective agreements,
restructuring of enterprises and health and safety. The chapters
are written by eminent experts from a considerable number of EU
Member States. Most of them are written by two authors from
different Member States. As a result of this duo-authorship the
book does not approach European labour law from a single country
perspective, but intends to give insight in the different ways
European labour was received and implemented in the various Member
States. The book does not only describe the current state of
affairs, but also critically assesses how the interaction of EU
legislature, Court of Justice, Member States and social partners
has contributed to the development of EU labour law. As such, it is
not only a comprehensive introduction to European labour law, but
provides also food for thought as part of advanced study in this
area. This handbook, dealing with all important areas of labour
law, written from several perspectives by experts, but within a
restricted number of pages, is therefore also excellent study
material for master programmes of European labour law. With
contributions by Edoardo Ales (University of Naples Parthenope,
Italy), Mark Bell (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland), Niklas Bruun
(Hanken School of Economics, Finland), Mijke Houwerzijl (Tilburg
University, The Netherlands), Teun Jaspers (Utrecht University, The
Netherlands), Sylvaine Laulom (Universite Lumiere Lyon 2, France),
Antonio Lo Faro (University of Catania, Italy), Pascale Lorber
(University of Leicester, United Kingdom), Ann Numhauser-Henning
(Lund University, Sweden), Frans Pennings (Utrecht University, The
Netherlands), Saskia Peters (University of Groningen, The
Netherlands), Jan Popma (Dutch Labour Inspectorate, The
Netherlands), Sophie Robin-Olivier (Universite Paris 1
Pantheon-Sorbonne, France) and Herwig Verschueren (University of
Antwerp, Belgium).
This book examines gender- and integration-specific needs of women
migrants by using a unique analytic framework, covering both
qualitative and quantitative methods and techniques. Case studies
from Sweden and Germany are presented, investigating how the gender
and integration-neutral or integration-blind nature of the reviewed
legislation can disadvantage migrant women in the labor market. The
book contributes to the discourses of liberal and post-colonial
feminism through new methodological and empirical insights. It,
therefore, is a must-read for everybody interested in a better
understanding of migrant women's chances to enter the labor market,
as well as gender and integration studies in general.
Contributing to the debate on work performance evaluation in a time
of technological transformation, this book explores the impact of
digitisation on production and organisation models, as well as on
the rights and interests of the stakeholders involved. As
organisations down-size, merge with other companies and become
decentralised, the boundaries in employer-employee-customer
relationships are blurred and new models for the organisation and
assessment of work performance have emerged. With these new models,
innovative regulatory approaches are sorely needed. Taking an
interdisciplinary approach and drawing on theoretical concepts from
organisation studies, human resource management, sociology and
labour economics, this all-encompassing collection is not only
essential reading for academics and students, but also for
policy-makers and employers who are looking for innovative and
practical solutions to the challenges of modern employment
relations.
WHAT IF YOUR BOSS WAS AN ALGORITHM? The gig economy promises to
revolutionise work as we know it, offering flexibility and
independence instead of 9-to-5 drudgery. The potential benefits are
enormous: consumers enjoy the convenience and affordability of
on-demand work while micro-entrepreneurs turn to online platforms
in search of their next gig, task, or ride. IS THIS THE FUTURE OF
WORK? The gig economy promises to revolutionise work as we know it,
offering flexibility and independence instead of 9-to-5 drudgery.
The potential benefits are enormous: consumers enjoy the
convenience and affordability of on-demand work while
micro-entrepreneurs turn to online platforms in search of their
next gig, task, or ride. HOW CAN WE PROTECT CONSUMERS & WORKERS
WITHOUT STIFLING INNOVATION? As courts and governments around the
world begin to grapple with the gig economy, Humans as a Service
explores the challenges of on-demand work, and explains how we can
ensure decent working conditions, protect consumers, and foster
innovation. Employment law plays a central role in levelling the
playing field: gigs, tasks, and rides are work - and should be
regulated as such.
Hospitality Management Law introduces students to legal concepts as
applied to the hospitality industry. The text provides knowledge of
business law concepts for preventative action, when to contact a
lawyer, and how to navigate a myriad of legal situations. The text
includes an historical overview of the sources of American law
complemented with the fundamentals of litigation. Included is an
explanation of substantive areas of business law as applied to the
hospitality industry. Subsequent chapters explain the procedural
components of a lawsuit in more detail. Topical coverage includes
contracts, negligence, government regulation, business relations,
finance and banking, and international business issues. Hospitality
Management Law is ideal for courses in business management and
business law. It provides students and industry professionals with
a solid knowledge base to compete within the industry.
The Kerner Commission Report, released a month before Martin Luther
King Jr.'s 1968 assassination, is among a handful of government
reports that reads like an illuminating history book-a dramatic,
often shocking, exploration of systemic racism that transcends its
time. Yet Columbia University professor and New Yorker
correspondent Jelani Cobb argues that this prescient report, which
examined more than a dozen urban uprisings between 1964 and 1967,
has been woefully neglected. In an enlightening new introduction,
Cobb reveals how these uprisings were used as political fodder by
Republicans and demonstrates that this condensed edition of the
Report should be essential reading at a moment when protest
movements are challenging us to uproot racial injustice. A detailed
examination of economic inequality, race, and policing, the Report
has never been more relevant, and demonstrates to devastating
effect that it is possible for us to be entirely cognizant of
history and still tragically repeat it.
This book provides the first overarching, empirically grounded,
critical analysis of child trafficking as an idea, ordering
principle, and artefact of politics. It examines (once) hegemonic
anti-child trafficking discourse, policy and practice, and does so
by placing secondary literature from around the world in
conversation the author's paradigmatic case study of the situation
in southern Benin. It deconstructs the child trafficking paradigm,
contrasts it with 'real' histories of child and youth labour and
mobility, and seeks to explain it by going 'inside' the
anti-trafficking field. In doing so, Howard tells a gripping story
of ideology at work.
This publication details how technical and vocational education and
training (TVET) has evolved in Tajikistan and other countries in
Central Asia. It offers recommendations to enhance regional
cooperation in labor market and TVET development. Tajikistan and
other countries in Central Asia, such as Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz
Republic, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, are striving to align TVET
with their economic realities. Job shortage and the gap between
TVET and the needs of employers must be addressed by these
countries. The publication recommends improvements across different
areas, including management and governance as well as regional
collaboration and experience sharing.
In December 1981, Mumia Abu-Jamal was shot and beaten into unconsciousness by Philadelphia police. He awoke to find himself shackled to a hospital bed, accused of killing a cop. He was convicted and sentenced to death in a trial that Amnesty International has denounced as failing to meet the minimum standards of judicial fairness.
In Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?, Mumia gives voice to the many people of color who have fallen to police bullets or racist abuse, and offers the post-Ferguson generation advice on how to address police abuse in the United States. This collection of his radio commentaries on the topic features an in-depth essay written especially for this book to examine the history of policing in America, with its origins in the white slave patrols of the antebellum South and an explicit mission to terrorize the country's black population. Applying a personal, historical, and political lens, Mumia provides a righteously angry and calmly principled radical black perspective on how racist violence is tearing our country apart and what must be done to turn things around.
Mumia Abu-Jamal is author of many books, including Death Blossoms, Live from Death Row, All Things Censored, Writing on the Wall, and Jailhouse Lawyers.
Policing Sex in the Sunflower State: The Story of the Kansas State
Industrial Farm for Women is the history of how, over a span of two
decades, the state of Kansas detained over 5,000 women for no other
crime than having a venereal disease. In 1917, the Kansas
legislature passed Chapter 205, a law that gave the state Board of
Health broad powers to quarantine people for disease. State
authorities quickly began enforcing Chapter 205 to control the
spread of venereal disease among soldiers preparing to fight in
World War I. Though Chapter 205 was officially gender-neutral, it
was primarily enforced against women; this gendered enforcement
became even more dramatic as Chapter 205 transitioned from a
wartime emergency measure to a peacetime public health strategy.
Women were quarantined alongside regular female prisoners at the
Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women (the Farm). Women detained
under Chapter 205 constituted 71 percent of the total inmate
population between 1918 and 1942. Their confinement at the Farm was
indefinite, with doctors and superintendents deciding when they
were physically and morally cured enough to reenter society; in
practice, women detained under Chapter 205 spent an average of four
months at the Farm. While at the Farm, inmates received treatment
for their diseases and were subjected to a plan of moral reform
that focused on the value of hard work and the inculcation of
middle-class norms for proper feminine behavior. Nicole Perry's
research reveals fresh insights into histories of women, sexuality,
and programs of public health and social control. Underlying each
of these are the prevailing ideas and practices of respectability,
in some cases culturally encoded, in others legislated, enforced,
and institutionalized. Perry recovers the voices of the different
groups of women involved with the Farm: the activist women who
lobbied to create the Farm, the professional women who worked
there, and the incarcerated women whose bodies came under the
control of the state. Policing Sex in the Sunflower State offers an
incisive and timely critique of a failed public health policy that
was based on perceptions of gender, race, class, and respectability
rather than a reasoned response to the social problem at hand.
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