Precarious Claims The Promise and Failure of Workplace Protections in the United States
Precarious Claims tells the human story behind the bureaucratic process of fighting for justice in the U.S. workplace. The global economy has fueled vast concentrations of wealth that have driven a demand for cheap and flexible labor. Workplace violations such as wage theft, unsafe work environments...
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| Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
| Language: | English |
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Oakland, California
University of California Press
2016
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| Summary: | Precarious Claims tells the human story behind the bureaucratic process of fighting for justice in the U.S. workplace. The global economy has fueled vast concentrations of wealth that have driven a demand for cheap and flexible labor. Workplace violations such as wage theft, unsafe work environments, and discrimination are widespread in low-wage industries such as restaurants, retail, hospitality, and domestic work, where jobs are often held by immigrants and other vulnerable workers. Despite the challenges they face, these workers do seek justice. Why and how do they come forward,and what happens once they do? Based on extensive fieldwork in Northern California, Shannon Gleeson investigates the array of gatekeepers with whom workers must negotiate in the labor standards enforcement bureaucracy and, ultimately, the limited reach of formal legal protections. Gleeson also tracks how workplace injustices-and the arduous process of contesting them-have long-term effects on their everyday lives. Workers sometimes win, but their chances are precarious at best. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (190 p.) |
| ISBN: | luminos.19 9780520963603 |
| Access: | Open Access |