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The gloves-off economy : workplace standards at the bottom of America's labor market / edited by Annette Bernhardt ... [et al.].

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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iv, 319 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

Argues that across the United States, increasing numbers of employers are breaking, bending, or evading long-established laws and standards designed to protect workers, from the minimum wage to job safety standards to the right to organize. This "gloves-off economy," no longer confined to a marginal set of sweatshops and fly-by-night small businesses, is sending shock waves into every corner of the low-wage labor market. Examines a range of gloves-off practices, the workers who are affected by them, and strategies for enforcing workplace standards.

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Labor and Employment Relations Association series

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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.

ISBN

9780913447970
0913447978

LCCN

^^2009277643

OCLC

228371639
SCSB-11334171

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Harvard Library