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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aTurk, Katherine
_eautore
245 1 0 _aEquality on Trial :
_bGender and Rights in the Modern American Workplace /
_cKatherine Turk.
264 1 _aPhiladelphia :
_bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,
_c[2016]
264 4 _c©2016
300 _a1 online resource (296 p.) :
_b11 illus.
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
_bc
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490 0 _aPolitics and Culture in Modern America
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tIntroduction: Notions of Sex Equality --
_tChapter 1. Defining Sex Discrimination --
_tChapter 2. Class and Class Action --
_tChapter 3. Feminism and Workplace Fairness --
_tChapter 4. Reevaluating Women's Work --
_tChapter 5. Sex Equality and the Service Sector --
_tChapter 6. A Man's World, but Only for Some --
_tChapter 7. Opting Out or Buying In --
_tConclusion. Illusions of Sex Equality --
_tList of Abbreviations --
_tNotes --
_tIndex --
_tAcknowledgments
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aIn 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.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
650 0 _aSex discrimination against women
_xLaw and legislation
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aSex discrimination against women
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 0 _aSex discrimination in employment
_xLaw and legislation
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aSex discrimination in employment
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 7 _aHISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
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653 _aAmerican History.
653 _aAmerican Studies.
653 _aGender Studies.
653 _aPolitical Science.
653 _aPublic Policy.
653 _aWomen's Studies.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.9783/9780812292831
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812292831
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