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Rights at Work
Michael W. McCann
其他書名
Pay Equity Reform and the Politics of Legal Mobilization
出版University of Chicago Press, 1994-07-15
主題Business & Economics / Labor / GeneralBusiness & Economics / Labor / Wages & CompensationHistory / Social HistoryLaw / GeneralLaw / Civil ProcedureLaw / Gender & the LawLaw / Labor & EmploymentPolitical Science / GeneralPolitical Science / Human RightsSocial Science / Sociology / GeneralSocial Science / Discrimination
ISBN02265557129780226555713
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=WtoAayu603kC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.