Rights at Work - Language and Legal Discours S.

Informationen zum Autor Michael W. McCann is chair and professor in the department of political science at the University of Wisconsin. He is the author of "Taking Reform Seriously: Perspectives on Public Interest Liberalism." Klappentext Preface Acronyms 1: Introduction 2: Pay Equity as Public Policy 3: Law as a Catalyst 4: The Social Context of Legal Mobilization 5: Compelling Concessions: Law as a Club 6: Implementation in the Dimming Shadows of Law7: Rights Consciousness and Social Change 8: Legal Mobilization and Political Struggle Appendixes References Index Zusammenfassung This text explores the role that litigation has played in the struggle for equal pay between women and men. It explains how wage discrimination battles have raised public legal consciousness and helped reform activists mobilize working women in the pay equity movement since the 1970s.

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• Authors: Mccann, Michael McCann, Michael W. McCann
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.1994
• EAN: 9780226555720
• ISBN: 978-0-226-55572-0
• No. of pages: 372
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 229 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Language & Legal Discourse S.; Language & Legal Discourse; Chicago Series in Law and Society; Language & Legal Discourse S.; Chicago Series in Law & Soc.(Prev.LLD-Lang & Legal Discourse)(CHUP)
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law