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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bernhardt, Annette D., 1964-

Labor and Employment Relations Association.

John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund.

Series:

Labor and Employment Relations Association series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor policy--United States.

Labor policy.

Working poor.

United States.

Industrial relations--United States.

Industrial relations.

Labor laws and legislation--United States.

Labor laws and legislation.

Unfair labor practices--United States.

Unfair labor practices.

Working poor--Abuse of--United States.

Discrimination in employment--United States.

Discrimination in employment.

Physical Description:

iv, 319 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Champaign, IL : Labor and Employment Relations Association, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund.

ISBN:

0913447978

9780913447970

OCLC:

228371639

Publisher Number:

99944055738