Rights at Work Pay Equity Reform and the Politics of Legal Mobilization

Name: Rights at Work Pay Equity Reform and the Politics of Legal Mobilization
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ISBN: 9780226555720

ISBN-10: 0226555720

ISBN-13: 9780226555720

Edition: 1994

Authors: Michael W. McCann

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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…

Book details

List price: $46.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/25/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 372
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.09" long x 0.89" tall
Weight: 1.320



Preface


Acronyms



Introduction



Pay Equity as Public Policy



Law as a Catalyst



The Social Context of Legal Mobilization



Compelling Concessions: Law as a Club



Implementation in the Dimming Shadows of Law



Rights Consciousness and Social Change



Legal Mobilization and Political Struggle


Appendixes


References


Index