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With case table.
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Page : 2296 pages
File Size : 46,6 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Discrimination in employment
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With case table.
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Page : 1864 pages
File Size : 25,62 MB
Release : 1977
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Page : pages
File Size : 30,83 MB
Release : 1975
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Author : Mary Anne Q. Wood
Publisher : Michie
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 40,81 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Business & Economics
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Page : pages
File Size : 33,80 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Discrimination in employment
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Labor
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Page : 202 pages
File Size : 15,70 MB
Release : 1945
Category : Discrimination in employment
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Author : United States. National Labor Relations Board. Office of the General Counsel
Publisher : U.S. Government Printing Office
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 48,27 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Law
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Labor
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Page : 244 pages
File Size : 14,22 MB
Release : 1944
Category : Discrimination in employment
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Page : 64 pages
File Size : 29,91 MB
Release : 1961
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99
Author : Ellen Berrey
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 10,42 MB
Release : 2017-06-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 022646685X
Gerry Handley faced years of blatant race-based harassment before he filed a complaint against his employer: racist jokes, signs reading “KKK” in his work area, and even questions from coworkers as to whether he had sex with his daughter as slaves supposedly did. He had an unusually strong case, with copious documentation and coworkers’ support, and he settled for $50,000, even winning back his job. But victory came at a high cost. Legal fees cut into Mr. Handley’s winnings, and tensions surrounding the lawsuit poisoned the workplace. A year later, he lost his job due to downsizing by his company. Mr. Handley exemplifies the burden plaintiffs bear in contemporary civil rights litigation. In the decades since the civil rights movement, we’ve made progress, but not nearly as much as it might seem. On the surface, America’s commitment to equal opportunity in the workplace has never been clearer. Virtually every company has antidiscrimination policies in place, and there are laws designed to protect these rights across a range of marginalized groups. But, as Ellen Berrey, Robert L. Nelson, and Laura Beth Nielsen compellingly show, this progressive vision of the law falls far short in practice. When aggrieved individuals turn to the law, the adversarial character of litigation imposes considerable personal and financial costs that make plaintiffs feel like they’ve lost regardless of the outcome of the case. Employer defendants also are dissatisfied with the system, often feeling “held up” by what they see as frivolous cases. And even when the case is resolved in the plaintiff’s favor, the conditions that gave rise to the lawsuit rarely change. In fact, the contemporary approach to workplace discrimination law perversely comes to reinforce the very hierarchies that antidiscrimination laws were created to redress. Based on rich interviews with plaintiffs, attorneys, and representatives of defendants and an original national dataset on case outcomes, Rights on Trial reveals the fundamental flaws of workplace discrimination law and offers practical recommendations for how we might better respond to persistent patterns of discrimination.