Includes bibliographical references (pages 352-398) and index.
Contents:
A vulnerability approach to private ordering of employment / Jonathan W. Fineman -- Green shoots in the labor market : a cornucopia of social experiments / Katherine Van Wezel Stone -- The constitutional right to organize / Rebecca E. Zietlow -- Labor rights as natural rights / Sean Coyle -- Paid care work, gendered labor law, and the vulnerability of community / LJB Hayes -- Vulnerability, workfare law, and resilient social justice / Camilla Sabroe Jydebjerg -- Contract as public law : the public nature of collective bargaining agreements / Risa L. Lieberwitz -- Acknowledging but transcending gender at work : applying the model of lifetime disadvantage and vulnerability theory to women's poverty in retirement / Susan Bisom-Rapp and Malcolm Sargeant -- Laboring freedom : neoliberalism, the jurisprudence of Obamacare, and the welfare-state left / Jack Jackson -- A desired composition : regulating vulnerability through immigration law / Silas W. Allard -- Migrant Domestic Workers in the UK : enacting exclusions, exemptions, and rights / Siobhan Mullally and Cliodhna Murphy -- Bad jobs and good workers : the hiring of ex-prisoners in a segmented economy / Kristin Bumiller -- We are all contingent : fighting vulnerability in the US workforce / Ann C. McGinley and David McClure -- Equal by what measure? : the lost struggle for universal state protective labor standards / Deborah Dinner -- Improving job quality for low-wage women workers : a 21st century movement / Elizabeth Ben-Ishai -- A right to request flexible working : what can the UK teach us? / K. Lee Adams -- Vulnerable communities : proposing community syndicalism for distressed localities / Kenneth M. Casebeer.
Summary:
"This book uses the concepts of vulnerability and resilience to analyze the situation of individuals and institutions in the context of the employment relationship. It is based on the premise that both employer and employee are vulnerable to various social, economic, and political forces, although differently so. It demonstrates how in responding to those complementary institutional relationships of employer and employee the state unequally and inequitably favors employers over employees. Several chapters included in this collection also consider how the state shapes, creates and maintains through law the social identities of employer and employee and how that legal regime operates as the allocation of power and privilege. This unique and fundamental role of the state in defining the employment relationship profoundly affects the respective abilities and degree of resiliency of actual employers and employees. Other chapters explore how attention to the respective vulnerability and resilience of those who do and those who direct work in assessing the employment relationship can raise fundamental questions of social justice and suggest new avenues for critical engagement with labor and employment law. Collectively, these pieces articulate a framework for imaging what would constitute an appropriately 'responsive state' in the employment context and how those interested in social justice might begin to use the concepts of vulnerability and resilience in their arguments."-- Back cover.
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