1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910153564303321

Autore

Gleeson Shannon <1980->

Titolo

Precarious Claims : The Promise and Failure of Workplace Protections in the United States / / Shannon Gleeson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University of California Press, 2016

Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , [2016]

©[2016]

ISBN

9780520963603

0520963601

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 177 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Open Access e-Books

Knowledge Unlatched

Classificazione

347.462

Disciplina

344.7301

Soggetti

Work environment - United States

Industrial safety - United States

Labor laws and legislation - United States

Work environment - California, Northern

Working class - California, Northern

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-168) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Inequality and power at work -- The landscape and logics of worker protections -- Navigating bureaucracies -- The aftermath of legal mobilization.

Sommario/riassunto

"Precarious Claims tells the human story behind the bureaucratic process of fighting for justice in the U.S. workplace. The global economy has fueled vast concentrations of wealth that have driven a demand for cheap and flexible labor. Workplace violations such as wage theft, unsafe work environments, and discrimination are widespread in low-wage industries such as retail, restaurants, hospitality, and domestic work, where jobs are often held by immigrants and other vulnerable workers. How and why do these workers, despite enormous barriers, come forward to seek justice, and what happens once they do? Based on extensive fieldwork in Northern



California, Gleeson investigates the array of gatekeepers with whom workers must negotiate in the labor standards enforcement bureaucracy and, ultimately, the limited reach of formal legal protections. The author also tracks how workplace injustices--and the arduous process of contesting them--carry long-term effects on their everyday lives. Workers sometimes win, but their chances are precarious at best"--Provided by publisher.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910153749203321

Autore

Petrakis Stefanos

Titolo

Korpora in Lehre und Forschung / Stefanos Petrakis, Stefanie Anstein, Cyril Belica

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bozen-Bolzano, : bu, press, 2011

Bozen-Bolzano : , : bu, press, , 2011

ISBN

9788860460950

8860460956

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (200)

Soggetti

Language

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Today, the teaching of knowledge is facing a twofold challenge: the demand for comprehensibility despite the high complexity of contents and the achievement of acceptable results in school in situations of ever-growing diversity. This opens up new research areas for linguistics: on the one hand, the communicative acts of members of a language community in everyday life and in specialized settings; on the other hand, the variable contexts of the speech acts, which require the co-orientation of social actors, which in turn also needs to be acquired and practiced like the languages with their formal and structural characteristics. Based upon these premises, this volume presents findings and theoretical approaches which make corpus findings



available for the study and the didactics of language teaching concerning the the three school languages ??of German, Italian and English. Special emphasis is put on the varieties of the German language in South Tyrol and the interface problem.