Equality on trial : gender and rights in the modern American workplace / Katherine Turk.
Turk, Katherine, author.
2016
KF3467 .T87 2016eb
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Title Equality on trial : gender and rights in the modern American workplace / Katherine Turk.
Author Turk, Katherine, author.
ISBN 9780812292831 (electronic book)
9780812248203
Published Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
Copyright ©2016
Language English
Description 1 online resource (284 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number KF3467 .T87 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 344.73014133
Summary "In 1964, as part of its landmark Civil Rights Act, Congress outlawed workplace discrimination on the basis of such personal attributes as sex, race, and religion. This provision, known as Title VII, laid a new legal foundation for women's rights at work. Though President Kennedy and other lawmakers expressed high hopes for Title VII, early attempts to enforce it were inconsistent. In the absence of a consensus definition of sex equality in the law or society, Title VII's practical meaning was far from certain. The first history to foreground Title VII's sex provision, Equality on Trial examines how the law's initial promise inspired a generation of Americans to dispatch expansive notions of sex equality. Imagining new solidarities and building a broad class politics, these workers and activists engaged Title VII to generate a pivotal battle over the terms of democracy and the role of the state in all labor relationships. But the law's ambiguity also allowed for narrow conceptions of sex equality to take hold. Conservatives found ways to bend Title VII's possible meanings to their benefit, discovering that a narrow definition of sex equality allowed businesses to comply with the law without transforming basic workplace structures or ceding power to workers. These contests to fix the meaning of sex equality ultimately laid the legal and cultural foundation for the neoliberal work regimes that enabled some women to break the glass ceiling as employers lowered the floor for everyone else. Synthesizing the histories of work, social movements, and civil rights in the postwar United States, Equality on Trial recovers the range of protagonists whose struggles forged the contemporary meanings of feminism, fairness, and labor rights"--Book jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Series Politics and culture in modern America.
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Notions of sex equality
Defining sex discrimination
Class and class action
Feminism and workplace fairness
Reevaluating women's work
Sex equality and the service sector
A man's world, but only for some
Opting out or buying in
Illusions of sex equality.

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