The gloves-off economy
Subtitle: workplace standards at the bottom of America's labor market
By: edited by Annette Bernhardt ... [et al.]
Contributors: Bernhardt, Annette D., 1964-; Labor and Employment Relations Association.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Labor and Employment Relations Association series
Publisher: Labor and Employment Relations Association, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Champaign, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9780913447970
Subjects: Labor policy -- United States; Industrial relations -- United States; Labor laws and legislation -- United States; Unfair labor practices -- United States; Working poor -- Abuse of -- United States; Discrimination in employment -- United States; Travail -- Politique gouvernementale -- États-Unis; Relations industrielles -- États-Unis; Travail -- Droit -- États-Unis; Travail -- Pratiques déloyales -- États-Unis; Violence envers les travailleurs pauvres -- États-Unis; Discrimination dans l'emploi -- États-Unis
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: An introduction to the "Gloves-off economy" / Annette Bernhardt, Heather Boushey, Laura Dresser, and Chris Tilly; title: Working beyond the reach or grasp of employment law / Noah D. Zatz; title: Putting wages back into competition : deunionization and degradation in place-bound industries / Ruth Milkman; title: Day labor and workplace abuses in the residential construction industry : conditions in the Washington, DC, region / Nik Theodore, Edwin Meléndez, Abel Valenzuela Jr., and Ana Luz Gonzalez; title: Cleaning and caring in the home : shared problems? shared possibilities? / Laura Dresser; title: Working on the margins : migration and employment in the United States / Sarah Gammage; title: Single mothers in the era of welfare reform / Elizabeth Lower-Basch and Mark H. Greenberg; title: The new challenge of employment in the era of criminal background checks / Maurice Emsellem and Debbie A. Mukamal; title: State and local policy models promoting immigrant worker justice / Amy Sugimori; title: Fighting and winning in the outsourced economy : justice for janitors at the University of Miami / Stephen Lerner, Jill Hurst, and Glenn Adler; title: New directions for the living wage movement / Paul K. Sonn and Stephanie Luce; title: Mighty monolith or fractured federation? : business opposition and the enactment of workplace legislation / David Weil.