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Equality on Trial - Gender and Rights in the Modern American Workplace (Paperback)
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Equality on Trial - Gender and Rights in the Modern American Workplace (Paperback)
Series: Politics and Culture in Modern America
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In 1964, as part of its landmark Civil Rights Act, Congress
outlawed workplace discrimination on the basis of such personal
attributes as sex, race, and religion. This provision, known as
Title VII, laid a new legal foundation for women's rights at work.
Though President Kennedy and other lawmakers expressed high hopes
for Title VII, early attempts to enforce it were inconsistent. In
the absence of a consensus definition of sex equality in the law or
society, Title VII's practical meaning was far from certain. The
first history to foreground Title VII's sex provision, Equality on
Trial examines how the law's initial promise inspired a generation
of Americans to dispatch expansive notions of sex equality.
Imagining new solidarities and building a broad class politics,
these workers and activists engaged Title VII to generate a pivotal
battle over the terms of democracy and the role of the state in all
labor relationships. But the law's ambiguity also allowed for
narrow conceptions of sex equality to take hold. Conservatives
found ways to bend Title VII's possible meanings to their benefit,
discovering that a narrow definition of sex equality allowed
businesses to comply with the law without transforming basic
workplace structures or ceding power to workers. These contests to
fix the meaning of sex equality ultimately laid the legal and
cultural foundation for the neoliberal work regimes that enabled
some women to break the glass ceiling as employers lowered the
floor for everyone else. Synthesizing the histories of work, social
movements, and civil rights in the postwar United States, Equality
on Trial recovers the range of protagonists whose struggles forged
the contemporary meanings of feminism, fairness, and labor rights.
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