1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996328039203316

Autore

Gleeson Shannon <1980->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©[2016]

ISBN

0-520-96360-1

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.

UNIORUON00467234

Autore

IDRIS, Saleh Mahmud

Titolo

A comparative study of the Tigre dialects / Saleh Mahmud Idris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

264 p., : ill. ; 21cm

ISBN

978-38-440-3438-7

Edizione

[Aachen : Shaker]

Descrizione fisica

D 188 ( Diss. Freie Universität Berlin, 2015)

Disciplina

492.8

Soggetti

LINGUA TIGRE' - Dialetti

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia