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

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

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 discourseâ€”the understanding of legal rights and their constraintsâ€”for defining and advancing their cause.

Rights at Work offers new insight into the relation between law and social changeâ€”the ways in which grass roots social movements work within legal rights traditions to promote progressive reform.
Country USA
Brand University of Chicago Press
Manufacturer University of Chicago Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber Illustrated
ReleaseDate 1994-06-25
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780226555720

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