Handbook of Employment Discrimination Research [electronic resource] : Rights and Realities /
Nielsen, Laura Beth.editor.
Nelson, Robert L.editor.
Encompasses critical discussions across different social science disciplines, as well as between legal scholars and social scientists. This work suggests a broad reconsideration of employment discrimination and its treatment in law.
Encompasses critical discussions across different social science disciplines, as well as between legal scholars and social scientists. This work suggests a broad reconsideration of employment discrimination and its treatment in law.
"The articles were written for a conference held at Stanford Law School in Spring 2003 that was sponsored by the American Bar Foundation and Stanford Law School"--P. xiii.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 409-449) and index.
Overview: Socio-Legal Approaches to Anti-Discrimination Law -- Scaling the Pyramid: A Sociolegal Model of Employment Discrimination Litigation -- Law's Role in Addressing Complex Discrimination -- What We Know about the Problem of the Century: Lessons from Social Science to the Law, and Back -- Debating the Prevalence and Character of Discrimination -- Including Mechanisms in our Models of Ascriptive Inequality -- Understanding the Sources of Ethnic and Racial Wage Gaps and Their Implications for Policy -- Discrimination in Consummated Car Purchases -- Racial Equality Without Equal Employment Opportunity? Lessons from a Labor Market for Professional Athletes -- Employment Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation: Dimensions of Difference -- Occupational Mobility Among African-Americans: Assimilation or Resegregation -- Changing Boundaries: Historical and Social Development of Anti-Discrimination Law -- Discrimination and Diplomacy: Recovering the Fuller National Stake in 1960s Civil Rights Reform -- Sowing the Dragon's Teeth: Materialization in Lesbian and Gay Anti-discrimination Rights -- Rights or Quotas? The ADA as a Model for Disability Rights -- Mobilizing Law: Rights Consciousness, Claiming Behaviour, and the Dynamics of Litigation -- The Evolution of Employment Discrimination Law in the 1990s: A Preliminary Empirical Investigation -- Perceiving and Claiming Discrimination -- Mobilizing Employment Rights in the Workplace -- The Intersectionality of Lived Experience and Anti-discrimination Empirical Research -- Law at Work: The Endogenous Construction of Civil Rights -- Discrimination against Caregivers? Gendered Family Responsibilities, Employer Practices, and Work Rewards -- Social Psychology of Bias -- Aversive Racism: Bias without Intention -- Applying Social Research on Stereotyping and Cognitive Bias to Employment Discrimination Litigation: The Case of Allegations of Systematic Gender Bias at Wal-Mart Stores.
Social sciences.
Law.
Labor law.
Political science.
Social Sciences, general.
Law, general.
Labour Law/Social Law.
Political Science.