Institutional Inequality and the Mobilization of the Family and Medical Leave Act
"This pathbreaking study offers new and compelling insights into the ways that workplaces institutionalize gender inequality and the capacity and constraints of legal rights in challenging social injustice." Deborah L. Rhode Director, Center on the Legal Profession E.W. McFarland Professor of Law Stanford Law School
How do Family and Medical Leave Act rights operate in practice in the courts and in the workplace? This empirical study examines how institutions and social practices transform the meaning of these rights to recreate inequality. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Cambridge University Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780521703949
- Utgivelsesår
- 2012
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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"This pathbreaking study offers new and compelling insights into the ways that workplaces institutionalize gender inequality and the capacity and constraints of legal rights in challenging social injustice." Deborah L. Rhode Director, Center on the Legal Profession E.W. McFarland Professor of Law Stanford Law School
"Do legal rights produce social change? Albiston gives a more nuanced answer than a simple yes or no, making this book required reading not only for anyone interested in gender and work-family policy, but also for those focused on social inequality, jurisprudence, legal history and organizational change." Joan C. Williams Distinguished Professor of Law, 1066 Foundation Chair and Director, Center for WorkLife Law University of California, Hastings College of the Law