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Author Gleeson, Shannon, 1980- author.

Title Precarious claims : the promise and failure of workplace protections in the United States / Shannon Gleeson
Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
©2017

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Description 1 online resource
Contents Inequality and power at work -- The landscape and logics of worker protections -- Navigating bureaucracies -- The aftermath of legal mobilization
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
Analysis industrial safety
working class
labor law
work environment
united states
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject Working class -- California, Northern -- Case studies
Work environment -- California, Northern -- Case studies
Work environment -- United States
Industrial safety -- United States
Labor laws and legislation -- United States.
Jurisprudence and general issues.
Law and society.
Law.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Sociology and anthropology.
Sociology.
Sociology: work and labour.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
Industrial safety
Labor laws and legislation
Work environment
Working class
Northern California
United States
Genre/Form Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016021065
ISBN 9780520963603
0520963601
0520288785
9780520288782