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The gloves-off economy : workplace standards at the bottom of America's labor market
- Title
- The gloves-off economy : workplace standards at the bottom of America's labor market / edited by Annette Bernhardt ... [et al.].
- Publication
- Champaign, IL : Labor and Employment Relations Association, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- iv, 319 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
- Series Statement
- Labor and Employment Relations Association series
- Subjects
- Working poor > Abuse of > United States
- Unfair labor practices > United States
- Violence envers les travailleurs pauvres > États-Unis
- Travail > Pratiques déloyales > États-Unis
- Labor policy > United States
- Discrimination in employment > United States
- Industrial relations > United States
- Labor laws and legislation > United States
- Travail > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis
- Relations industrielles > États-Unis
- Discrimination dans l'emploi > États-Unis
- Travail > Droit > États-Unis
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- An introduction to the "Gloves-off economy" / Annette Bernhardt, Heather Boushey, Laura Dresser, and Chris Tilly -- Working beyond the reach or grasp of employment law / Noah D. Zatz -- Putting wages back into competition : deunionization and degradation in place-bound industries / Ruth Milkman -- Day labor and workplace abuses in the residential construction industry : conditions in the Washington, DC, region / Nik Theodore, Edwin Meléndez, Abel Valenzuela Jr., and Ana Luz Gonzalez -- Cleaning and caring in the home : shared problems? shared possibilities? / Laura Dresser -- Working on the margins : migration and employment in the United States / Sarah Gammage -- Single mothers in the era of welfare reform / Elizabeth Lower-Basch and Mark H. Greenberg -- The new challenge of employment in the era of criminal background checks / Maurice Emsellem and Debbie A. Mukamal -- State and local policy models promoting immigrant worker justice / Amy Sugimori -- Fighting and winning in the outsourced economy : justice for janitors at the University of Miami / Stephen Lerner, Jill Hurst, and Glenn Adler -- New directions for the living wage movement / Paul K. Sonn and Stephanie Luce -- Mighty monolith or fractured federation? : business opposition and the enactment of workplace legislation / David Weil.
- Call Number
- JBD 09-253
- ISBN
- 9780913447970
- 0913447978
- OCLC
- 228371639
- Title
- The gloves-off economy : workplace standards at the bottom of America's labor market / edited by Annette Bernhardt ... [et al.].
- Imprint
- Champaign, IL : Labor and Employment Relations Association, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Series
- Labor and Employment Relations Association series
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Added Author
- Bernhardt, Annette D., 1964-Labor and Employment Relations Association.
- Research Call Number
- JBD 09-253