Discrimination Laundering - The Rise of Organizational Innocence Crisis of Equal Opportunity Law

This book uncovers legal shifts founded on misunderstandings about discrimination and describes how law and organizations can do better.

List of contents

1. The threads of organizational innocence; Part I. Discrimination Laundering: 2. Individual discrimination: the emerging law of complaint and response; 3. Systemic discrimination: erasing the aggregate and entrenching a law of complaint and response; 4. Class, culture, and limiting the purview of Title VII; Part II. What's Wrong with Discrimination Laundering: 5. The laundered workplace; 6. How organizations discriminate - and what they can do to stop; Part III. Reversing Discrimination Laundering: 7. Reversing discrimination laundering.

About the author

Tristin K. Green is a Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco and a member of the Law and Society Association. She has written extensively in the field of employment discrimination law, seeking to better understand how discrimination operates and how to better structure the law to incentivize meaningful change. She has co-authored an article with Alexandra Kalev, a sociologist, on the relational nature of discrimination, and co-authored a casebook edition with Herma Hill Kay entitled Sex-Based Discrimination (2011).

Summary

This book explains how discrimination operates, shows how and why recent changes in the law are incentivizing the wrong organizational efforts, and proposes a way forward. The book will appeal to readers interested in race and gender, discrimination and inequality, civil rights, organizational responsibility, and business efforts to manage diversity.

Product details

• Authors: Tristin K. Green, Green Tristin K.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.11.2016
• EAN: 9781316506998
• ISBN: 978-1-316-50699-8
• No. of pages: 207
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LAW / Labor & Employment, Human rights & civil liberties law, LAW / Civil Rights, LAW / Discrimination, Law: Human rights and civil liberties, Discrimination in employment and harassment law, Discrimination in employment law