Precarious Claims : The Promise and Failure of Workplace Protections in the United States / / Shannon Gleeson
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| Autore: |
Gleeson Shannon <1980->
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| Titolo: |
Precarious Claims : The Promise and Failure of Workplace Protections in the United States / / Shannon Gleeson
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| Pubblicazione: | University of California Press, 2016 |
| Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , [2016] | |
| ©[2016] | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (ix, 177 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 344.7301 |
| Soggetto topico: | Work environment - United States |
| Industrial safety - United States | |
| Labor laws and legislation - United States | |
| Work environment - California, Northern | |
| Working class - California, Northern | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Classificazione: | 347.462 |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Precarious Claims |
| ISBN: | 0-520-96360-1 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910153564303321 |
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