Lactation At Work - Expressed Milk, Expressing Beliefs, and the Expressive Value of Law

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Lactation law as public policy; 3. Expressed frustration: noncompliant, insufficient, and inconsistent accommodations; 4. Milk and management: substantive compliance through managerialization; 5. Allies already: supportive human resource specialists and supervising managers; 6. Moralizing the law: listening in the shadow of the law and the transformation of supervising managers; 7. Conclusion; Appendix A. State and federal lactation at work laws; Appendix B. Methodology and research strategy.

About the author

Elizabeth A. Hoffmann is Associate Professor of Sociology and Law & Society at Purdue University. Hoffmann studies how people's legal consciousness and organizational location shape their experience of the law in the workplace. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and has won awards from the Labor and Employment Research Association, the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, and the American Bar Foundation.

Summary

This book shows legal scholars how a successful civil rights law creates effective change by helping labor activists and management personnel understand how to approach new accommodations and enabling workers to understand the possibilities for amelioration of workplace problems through internal negotiations and legal reforms.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth A. Hoffmann, Elizabeth A. (Purdue University Hoffmann, Hoffmann Elizabeth A.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781108488549
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48854-9
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LAW / Labor & Employment, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, LAW / Legal Education, Popular beliefs & controversial knowledge, Popular beliefs and controversial knowledge, Employment & Labour Law, Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law, Laws Of Specific Jurisdictions, Law: Study & Revision Guides, Legal system: general, Employment and labour law: general, Legal systems: general, Law: study and revision guides