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Precarious Claims : The Promise and Failure of Workplace Protections in the United States /

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"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 enviro...

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Main Author: Gleeson, Shannon, 1980- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Working class.
Work environment.
Labor laws and legislation.
Industrial safety.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Sociology: work and labour.
Sociology.
Sociology and anthropology.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Law.
Law and society.
Jurisprudence and general issues.
Securite du travail > États-Unis.
Travailleurs > Californie (Nord) > Études de cas.
Labor laws and legislation > United States.
Industrial safety > United States.
Work environment > United States.
Work environment > California, Northern > Case studies.
Working class > California, Northern > Case studies.
United States.
Northern California.
Case studies.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Inequality and power at work
  • The landscape and logics of worker protections
  • Navigating bureaucracies
  • The aftermath of legal mobilization.

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