Rights at Work - Pay Equity Reform and the Politics of Legal Mobilization (Paperback, New)

What role has litigation played in the struggle for equal pay between women and men? In "Rights at Work," Michael W. McCann explains how wage discrimination battles have raised public legal consciousness and helped reform activists mobilize working women in the pay equity movement over the past two decades.
"Rights at Work" explores the political strategies in more than a dozen pay equity struggles since the late 1970s, including battles of state employees in Washington and Connecticut, as well as city employees in San Jose and Los Angeles. Relying on interviews with over 140 union and feminist activists, McCann shows that, even when the courts failed to correct wage discrimination, litigation and other forms of legal advocacy provided reformers with the legal discourse2;the understanding of legal rights and their constraints2;for defining and advancing their cause.
"Rights at Work" offers new insight into the relation between law and social change2;the ways in which grass roots social movements work within legal rights traditions to promote progressive reform.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Chicago Series in Law and Society
Release date:	June 1994
First published:	June 1994
Authors:	Michael W. McCann
Dimensions:	230 x 153 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	358
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-55572-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Equal opportunities Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Labour economics > General Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Financial, taxation, commercial, industrial law > Employment & labour law Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights > General Promotions
LSN:	0-226-55572-0
Barcode:	9780226555720

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