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Author:

Edelman, Lauren B., author.

Title:

Working law : courts, corporations, and symbolic civil rights / Lauren B. Edelman.

Publisher:

The University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xii, 349 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Civil rights--United States.
Discrimination in employment--Law and legislation--United States.
Discrimination in employment--United States.
Affirmative action programs--Law and legislation--United States.
Affirmative action programs--Social aspects.--Social aspects.
Corporate governance--United States.
Corporate governance--Social aspects.--Social aspects.
Sociological jurisprudence.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-336) and index.

Contents:

The workplace in law. Symbolic civil rights and the endogeneity of law. The endogeneity of law -- Ambiguous law and the erosion of the progressive vision in the courts -- Law in the workplace. Professional framing of the legal environment -- The diffusion of symbolic structures -- The managerialization of law -- The workplace in law. The mobilization of symbolic structures -- Legal deference to symbolic compliance -- Symbolic civil rights and the endogeneity of law.

Series:

The Chicago series in law and society

ISBN:

022640076X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780226400761 (pbk. : alk. paper)
022640062X (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780226400624 (hbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)944087657

LCCN:

2016020355

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)