Rights at Work by Michael W. McCann - ISBN: 9780226555720
Paperback
This text explores the role that litigation has played in the struggle for equal pay between women and men. It explains how wage discrimination battles have raised public legal consciousness and helped reform activists mobilize working women in the pay equity movement since the 1970s.

Rights at Work

Pay Equity Reform and the Politics of Legal Mobilization

  • Paperback

    372 pages

  • Release Date

    25 June 1994

Summary

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…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780226555720
ISBN-10:0226555720
Author:Michael W. McCann
Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
Imprint:University of Chicago Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:372
Release Date:25 June 1994
Weight:567g
Dimensions:23mm x 15mm x 2mm
Series:Chicago Series in Law and Society
About The Author

Michael W. McCann

Michael W. McCann is chair and professor in the department of political science at the University of Wisconsin. He is the author of Taking Reform Seriously: Perspectives on Public Interest Liberalism.

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