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This book focuses on developing issues in international, comparative, and transnational employee benefits law. It is divided into four areas that practitioners will need to become familiar with in order to thrive in our increasingly global economy...

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This compilation of statutory law on equality in the workplace supplements the development of the body of law on employment discrimination. Explanatory materials on equality in the workplace accompany the selections.

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In 1856, the US Supreme Court denied Dred Scott, now free of slavery, his Constitutional rights, solely because he was black. According to the Court, when the Constitution was drafted, some 60 years earlier, its authors would not have intended tha...

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How have EU-level actors responded to the increase in salience and contestation across the member states? This volume explores and explains the actors strategic responses and emphasises that domestic pressure has triggered both depoliticisation an...

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Why is the law failing to protect pregnant workers and parents from detrimental treatment in the workplace? This theoretically informed book, which draws on the findings of a large scale, Nuffield Foundation funded, study of pregnancy-related work...

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Black Lives Matter and #MeToo are two of the most prominent twenty-first-century social movements in the United States. On the ground and on social media, more people have taken an active stance in support of either or both movements than almost a...

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In this inspirational survival guide, Roxanne Elliott Kemp, an educator and administrator in institutions of education, gives aspiring minority educators, real world examples of the challenges and obstacles sometimes faced by minorities and practi...

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Where did affirmative action in employment come from? The conventional wisdom is that it was instituted during the Johnson and Nixon years through the backroom machinations of federal bureaucrats and judges. The Fifth Freedom presents a new perspe...

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Equal opportunity in the workplace is thought to be the direct legacy of the civil rights and feminist movements and the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. Yet, as Frank Dobbin demonstrates, corporate personnel experts--not Congress or the courts-...

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What role should racial difference play in the American workplace? As a nation, we rely on civil rights law to address this question, and the monumental Civil Rights Act of 1964 seemingly answered it: race must not be a factor in workplace decisio...

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Policing Sex in the Sunflower State: The Story of the Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women is the history of how, over a span of two decades, the state of Kansas detained over 5,000 women for no other crime than having a venereal disease. In 191...

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Before she became the Notorious R.B.G. famous for her passionate dissents while serving as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg made her most significant contributions as a lawyer who litigated cases on gend...

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Susan Gluck Mezey's newest book, Gay Families and the Courts, is a compelling examination of the role of the state and federal courts in furthering the goals of the gay and lesbian community. Unlike Mezey's earlier book, Queers in Court,...

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People with disabilities in Canada inhabit a system of deep structural, economic, social, political, legal, and cultural inequality a regime of dis-citizenship. Despite the widespread belief that Canada is a country of liberty, equality, and inclu...

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A principal forbids same-sex prom dates. A community group tries to prohibit gender-neutral bathrooms. Despite growing acceptance of 2SLGBTQ+ rights, Canadian schools regularly become battlegrounds in clashes between students wishing to express th...

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The goal of this well known book is to provide methods for understanding major EEO laws, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Equal Pay Act of 1963, and the American with Disabilities Act of 1990. Also included are over 700 cases involving ...

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The US Supreme Courts 1937 decision in West Coast Hotel v. Parrish, upholding the constitutionality of Washington States minimum wage law for women, had monumental consequences for all American workers. It also marked a major shift in the Courts r...

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Delivers knowledge critical to understanding the multidimensional aspects of working with varied populations with disabilities.This is the only introduction to disability book with an interdisciplinary perspective that offers cross-disability and ...

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Western feminists have long treated the rule of law as an essential ingredient of social justice; however, as the contributors to this collection remind us, meaningful justice remains out of reach for many women and racialized minorities precisely...

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White beauty standards have been used for hundreds of years as a justification for the abuse, exploitation, and genocide of blacks and non-whites simply because they look different. The "Beauty Con Game" will present the factual and hist...

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Landon, a lawyer, and Halleck, a writer, use nonfiction and fiction to explore a particularly difficult topic--the effect of laws enacted in the aftermath of brutal child abductions and murders on those accused of lesser sexual crimes or those fal...

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Robert Martin shines the spotlight of truth on the dismal state of free speech in Canada. With impeccable research and a clear, conversational tone, Robert provides devastating commentary on the absurdity of political correctness and post-modern l...

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This book explains what human rights are, how the law prohibits discrimination against people based on those grounds. This book uses cases to explain the federal Canadian Human Rights Act, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms as well as pro...

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Although diversity in companies is a topic of great interest, significant aspects of the issue are often left out of the debate. The Corporate Diversity Jigsaw connects all the dots so that steps taken to address issues of diversity in business or...

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Lifetime Disadvantage, Discrimination and the Gendered Workforce fills a gap in the literature on discrimination and disadvantage suffered by women at work by focusing on the inadequacies of the current law and the need for a new holistic approach...

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Nine to Five provides a lively and accessible introduction to the laws and policies regulating sex, sexuality, and gender identity in the American workplace. Contemporary cases and events reveal the breadth and persistence of sexism and gender ste...

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How would feminist perspectives and analytical methods change the interpretation of employment discrimination law? Would the conscious use of feminist perspectives make a difference? This volume shows the difference feminist analysis can make to t...

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The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities promotes ability equality, but this is not experienced in national laws. Australia, Canada, Ireland, the UK and the US all have one thing in common: regulatory frameworks which treat wor...

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This book seeks to rebalance the relationship between comparison and justification to achieve more effective equality and non-discrimination law. As one of the most distinguished equality lawyers of his generation, having appeared in over 40 cases...

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