Marginal Workers : How Legal Fault Lines Divide Workers and Leave Them without Protection /

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Undocumented and authorized immigrant laborers, female workers, workers of color, guest workers, and unionized workers together compose an enormous and diverse part of the labor force in America. Labor and employment laws are supposed to protect employees from various workplace threats, such as poor...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Garcia, Ruben J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Minorities > Legal status, laws, etc.
Labor unions > Law and legislation.
Labor laws and legislation.
Foreign workers > Legal status, laws, etc.
Discrimination in employment > Law and legislation.
LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Labor laws and legislation > United States.
Labor unions > Law and legislation > United States.
Foreign workers > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Minorities > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Discrimination in employment > Law and legislation > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: who are the marginal workers?
  • Framing workers' rights: the legal and theoretical underpinnings for the protection of marginal workers
  • New voices at work: unionized workers at the intersection of race and gender
  • Across the borders: how antidiscrimination law fails noncitizens and other marginal workers
  • Labor as property: guestworkers at the margins of domestic legal systems
  • A global understanding of worker protection.

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