Synopses & Reviews
There is much to understand about employment discrimination law as a social system. What drives the growing trend toward litigation? To what extent does discrimination persist and why does it vary by organizational and market context? How do different groups perceive discrimination and what, if anything, do they do about it? How do employers respond to discrimination law? What is the effect of broader political and legal currents? What is the relationship between anti-discrimination law and social inequality? This book presents answers, from a distinguished group of scholars, and social scientists, offering a broad reconsideration of employment discrimination and its treatment in law.
Table of Contents
Introduction. Section I: Overview/Introduction: Socio-Legal Approaches to Anti-Discrimination Law. 1. Scaling the Pyramid: A Sociological Model of Employment Discrimination Law . 2. Law's Role in Addressing Complex Discrimination. 3. What We Know About the Problem of the Century: Lessons from Social Science to the Law, and Back. Section II: Debating the Prevalence and Character of Discrimination. 4. Including Mechanisms in Our Models of Ascriptive Inequality. 5. Pre-market Explanations of Black-White-Hispanic Wage Gaps. 6. Discrimination in Consumated Car Purchases. 7. Racial Equality Without Equal Employment Opportunity?: Lessons from a Labor Market for Professional Athletes. 8. Employment Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation: Dimensions of Difference. 9. Occupational Mobility Among African Americans: Assimilation or Resegregation. Section III: Changing Boundaries: Historical and Social Development of Anti-Discrimination Law. 10. Discrimination and Diplomacy: Recovering the National Stake in 1960s Civil Rights Reform. 11. Sowing the Dragon's Teeth: Materialization in Lesbian and Gay Antidiscrimination Rights. 12. Rights or Quotas? The ADA as a Model for Disability Rights. Section IV: Mobilizing Law: Rights Consciousness, Claiming Behavior, and the Dynamics of Litigation. 13. The Evolution of Employment Discrimination Law in the 1990s: An Empirical Investigation. 14. Perceiving and Claiming Discrimination. 15. Mobilizing Employment Rights in the Workplace. 16. The Intersectionality of Lived Experience and Anti-Discrimination Empirical Research. 17. Law at Work: The Endogenous Construction of Civil Rights. 18. Discrimination Against Caregivers? Gendered Family Caregiving, EmployerPractices and Work Rewards. Section V: Social Psychology of Bias. 19. Averse Racism: Bias Without Intention. 20. Can I Get a Witness? Presenting and Challenging Expert Testimony on Stereotyping and Cognitive Bias in Employment Discrimination Litigation. Section VI. Postscript.