ISBN: 9780226400624

Hardback, [PU: The University of Chicago Press], In the half century since the passage of the Civil Rights Act, virtually every company now has anti-discriminatory procedures and policies… More...

Hardback, [PU: The University of Chicago Press], In the half century since the passage of the Civil Rights Act, virtually every company now has anti-discriminatory procedures and policies in place. Many commentators point to the existence of such measures and have proclaimed that significant progress has been made. Lauren B. Edelman s book tells quite a different story, showing not only how, but why, discrimination and inequality still persist in the American workplace. Because the law regulating organizations tends to be broad and ambiguous, managers, HR departments, and lawyers within organizations play a critical role in shaping what these laws actually mean in practice, often infusing legal rules with managerial values and ways of thinking in the process. This managerialization of law often results in organizational policies and procedures that, while paying symbolic lip service to legal principles, still fail to dispel longstanding patterns of discrimination and inequality. Just as importantly, Edelman shows how the understandings of law that evolve within organizations can and do seep back into the legal domain, unobtrusively influencing lawyers for both plaintiffs and defendants and ultimately even judges. She shows, for example, how judges defer to ideas about what it means to comply with laws which were, in fact, constructed within corporations. The first, comprehensive theory of the relationship between law and organizations, Working Law uncovers the institutionalized organizational practices and culture within workplaces that give meaning to law and shape legal consciousness in the courtroom and in society more generally.", Social Discrimination, Sociology, Civil Rights & Citizenship, Corporate Governance & Responsibilities, Human Rights & Civil Liberties Law, Employment & Labour Law, Discrimination In Employment Law<

ISBN: 9780226400624

Hardback, [PU: The University of Chicago Press], In the half century since the passage of the Civil Rights Act, virtually every company now has anti-discriminatory procedures and policies… More...

Hardback, [PU: The University of Chicago Press], In the half century since the passage of the Civil Rights Act, virtually every company now has anti-discriminatory procedures and policies in place. Many commentators point to the existence of such measures and have proclaimed that significant progress has been made. Lauren B. Edelman s book tells quite a different story, showing not only how, but why, discrimination and inequality still persist in the American workplace. Because the law regulating organizations tends to be broad and ambiguous, managers, HR departments, and lawyers within organizations play a critical role in shaping what these laws actually mean in practice, often infusing legal rules with managerial values and ways of thinking in the process. This managerialization of law often results in organizational policies and procedures that, while paying symbolic lip service to legal principles, still fail to dispel longstanding patterns of discrimination and inequality. Just as importantly, Edelman shows how the understandings of law that evolve within organizations can and do seep back into the legal domain, unobtrusively influencing lawyers for both plaintiffs and defendants and ultimately even judges. She shows, for example, how judges defer to ideas about what it means to comply with laws which were, in fact, constructed within corporations. The first, comprehensive theory of the relationship between law and organizations, Working Law uncovers the institutionalized organizational practices and culture within workplaces that give meaning to law and shape legal consciousness in the courtroom and in society more generally.", Employment & Labour Law<

ISBN: 9780226400624

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 … More...

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 also tend to be less well paid. How is it that discrimination remains so prevalent in the American workplace despite the widespread adoption of policies designed to prevent it? One reason for the limited success of antidiscrimination policies, argues Lauren B. Edelman, is that the law regulating companies is broad and ambiguous, and managers therefore play a critical role in shaping what it means in daily practice. Often, what results are policies and procedures that are largely symbolic and fail to dispel long-standing patterns of discrimination. Even more troubling, these meanings of the law that evolve within companies tend to eventually make their way back into the legal domain, inconspicuously influencing lawyers for both plaintiffs and defendants and even judges. When courts look to the presence of antidiscrimination policies and personnel manuals to infer fair practices and to the presence of diversity training programs without examining whether these policies are effective in combating discrimination and achieving racial and gender diversity, they wind up condoning practices that deviate considerably from the legal ideals.   Books > Reference > Law > Civil Law > Rights List_Books, [PU: University of Chicago Press]<

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Courts, Corporations, and Symbolic Civil Rights, Buch, Hardcover, [PU: University of Chicago Press], University of Chicago Press, 2016

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