Working law : courts, corporations, and symbolic civil rights /
Since the passage of the Civil Rights Act, virtually all companies have antidiscrimination policies in place. Although these policies represent some progress, women and minorities remain underrepresented within the workplace as a whole and even more so when you look at high-level positions. They als...
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| Language: | English |
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press,
2016.
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| Series: | Chicago series in law and society.
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Table of Contents:
- The interplay of law and organizations. Introduction ; The endogeneity of law ; Ambiguous law and the erosion of the progressive vision in the courts
- Law in the workplace. Professional framing of the legal environment ; The diffusion of symbolic structures ; The managerialization of law
- The workplace in law. The mobilization of symbolic structures ; Legal deference to symbolic compliance ; Symbolic civil rights and the endogeneity of law.