Rights at Work

Pay Equity Reform and the Politics of Legal Mobilization

By: Michael W. McCann

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Paperback | 25 June 1994 | Edition Number 1

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What role has litigation played in the struggle for equal pay between women and men? In Rights at Work, Michael W. McCann explains how wage discrimination battles have raised public legal consciousness and helped reform activists mobilize working women in the pay equity movement over the past two decades.

Rights at Work explores the political strategies in more than a dozen pay equity struggles since the late 1970s, including battles of state employees in Washington and Connecticut, as well as city employees in San Jose and Los Angeles. Relying on interviews with over 140 union and feminist activists, McCann shows that, even when the courts failed to correct wage discrimination, litigation and other forms of legal advocacy provided reformers with the legal discourse-the understanding of legal rights and their constraints-for defining and advancing their cause.

Rights at Work offers new insight into the relation between law and social change-the ways in which grass roots social movements work within legal rights traditions to promote progressive reform.

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Non-Fiction Economics Labour Economics Sociology & Anthropology Sociology History Specific Events & Topics in History Social & Cultural History Politics & Government Political Control & Freedoms Human Rights Society & Culture

Social Issues & Processes Social Discrimination & Inequality Law Laws of Specific Jurisdictions Employment & Labour Law Business & Management General Works of Private & Civil Law

Preface
Acronyms
Introduction
Pay Equity as Public Policy
Law as a Catalyst
The Social Context of Legal Mobilization
Compelling Concessions: Law as a Club
Implementation in the Dimming Shadows of Law
Rights Consciousness and Social Change
Legal Mobilization and Political Struggle
Appendixes
References
Index
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