Rights at Work: Pay Equity Reform and the Politics of Legal Mobilization (Chicago Series in Law and Society) - Tapa blanda

McCann, Michael W. W.

 
9780226555720: Rights at Work: Pay Equity Reform and the Politics of Legal Mobilization (Chicago Series in Law and Society)
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ISBN 10: 0226555720 ISBN 13: 9780226555720
Editorial: University of Chicago Press, 1994

Sinopsis

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 discourse—the understanding of legal rights and their constraints—for defining and advancing their cause.

Rights at Work offers new insight into the relation between law and social change—the ways in which grass roots social movements work within legal rights traditions to promote progressive reform.

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Acerca del autor

Michael W. McCann is chair and professor in the department of political science at the University of Wisconsin. He is the author ofTaking Reform Seriously: Perspectives on Public Interest Liberalism.

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Editorial
University of Chicago Press
Año de publicación
1994
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0226555720
ISBN 13 
9780226555720
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
372
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9780226555713: Rights at Work: Pay Equity Reform and the Policies of Legal Mobilization (Language & Legal Discourse S.)

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ISBN 10:  0226555712 ISBN 13:  9780226555713
Editorial: University of Chicago Press, 1994
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