Precarious Claims The Promise and Failure of Workplace Protections in the United States / Shannon Gleeson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gleeson, Shannon, 1980- author.

Series:

Open Access e-Books

Knowledge Unlatched

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Work environment--United States.

Work environment.

Industrial safety--United States.

Industrial safety.

Labor laws and legislation--United States.

Labor laws and legislation.

Work environment--California, Northern--Case studies.

Working class--California, Northern--Case studies.

Working class.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 177 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

University of California Press 2016

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"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"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Inequality and power at work

The landscape and logics of worker protections

Navigating bureaucracies

The aftermath of legal mobilization.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-168) and index.

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ISBN:

9780520963603

0520963601

OCLC:

948747927