A01=Shannon Gleeson
american labor laws
Author_Shannon Gleeson
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equal employment protection
immigrant workers
inequality and power at work
labor and employment in the us
labor issues in the us
labor organization
race and ethnicity in low paying jobs
unsafe work environments
vulnerable workers in the us
wage theft
worker organization
worker protections
working class issues
working class rights
workplace issues in low wage occupations
workplace issues in the us
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- ISBN 9780520288782
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 2016
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program for monographs. 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.
Shannon Gleeson is Associate Professor of Labor Relations, Law, and History at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University.
