| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 177 pages) |
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text file |
| Series |
Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-168) and index. |
| Contents |
Inequality and power at work -- The landscape and logics of worker protections -- Navigating bureaucracies -- The aftermath of legal mobilization. |
| Access |
Open Access Unrestricted online access |
| 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 retail, restaurants, hospitality, and domestic work, where jobs are often held by immigrants and other vulnerable workers. How and why do these workers, despite enormous barriers, come forward to seek justice, and what happens once they do? Based on extensive fieldwork in Northern California, 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. The author also tracks how workplace injustices--and the arduous process of contesting them--carry long-term effects on their everyday lives. Workers sometimes win, but their chances are precarious at best"--Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
Project Muse Project Muse Open Access |
| Subject |
Work environment -- United States.
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Work environment. |
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United States. |
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Industrial safety -- United States.
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Industrial safety. |
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Labor laws and legislation -- United States.
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Labor laws and legislation. |
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Work environment -- California, Northern -- Case studies.
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Northern California. |
| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| Subject |
Working class -- California, Northern -- Case studies.
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Working class. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books. .
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Case studies.
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| Added Author |
Project Muse, distributor.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Gleeson, Shannon, 1980- author. Precarious claims Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017] 9780520963603 (DLC) 2016021065 |
| ISBN |
9780520963603 |
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0520963601 |
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9780520288782 paperback alkaline paper |
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