Institutional inequality and the mobilization of the Family and Medical Leave Act
Subtitle: rights on leave
By: Catherine R. Albiston
Series: Cambridge studies in law and society; Cambridge studies in law and society
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780521878975
Description: "This empirical study examines how institutions and social practices transform the meaning of Family and Medical Leave Act rights to recreate systems of power and inequality"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-282) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. Institutions, inequality, and the mobilization of rights; 2. The social institution of work; 3. Institutional inequality and legal reform; 4. Mobilizing the FMLA in the workplace: rights, institutions, and social meaning; 5. Mobilizing rights in the courts: the paradox of losing by winning; 6. Conclusion.