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Two waves of interviews with management and workers demonstrate how the Lactation at Work Law made substantial changes within organizations.
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.
Foreword
Two waves of interviews with management and workers demonstrate how the Lactation at Work Law made substantial changes within organizations.
