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Handbook of Employment Discrimination Research

Rights and Realities

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  • © 2008

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Editors:
  1. Laura Beth Nielsen

    1. American Bar Foundation and Northwestern University, Chicago and Evanston, USA

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  2. Robert L. Nelson

    1. American Bar Foundation and Northwestern University, Chicago and Evanston, USA

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  • High standard collection of articles and essays on the topic of employment discrimination, according to our reviewers it will be the best collection

  • Each of the pieces is of exceptionally high quality; in terms of contributors the manuscript has almost all of the big stars in the area

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Overview: Socio-Legal Approaches to Anti-Discrimination Law

    1. Scaling the Pyramid: A Sociolegal Model of Employment Discrimination Litigation

      • Laura Beth Nielsen, Robert L. Nelson
      Pages 3-34

    2. Law’s Role in Addressing Complex Discrimination

      • Susan Sturm
      Pages 35-57

    3. What We Know about the Problem of the Century: Lessons from Social Science to the Law, and Back

      • Susan T. Fiske
      Pages 59-71

  4. Changing Boundaries: Historical and Social Development of Anti-Discrimination Law

    1. Discrimination and Diplomacy: Recovering the Fuller National Stake in 1960s Civil Rights Reform

      • Mary L. Dudziak
      Pages 203-218

    2. Sowing the Dragon’s Teeth: Materialization in Lesbian and Gay Anti-discrimination Rights

      • Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller
      Pages 219-235

    3. Rights or Quotas? The ADA as a Model for Disability Rights

      • Katharina Heyer
      Pages 237-257

  5. Mobilizing Law: Rights Consciousness, Claiming Behaviour, and the Dynamics of Litigation

    1. The Evolution of Employment Discrimination Law in the 1990s: A Preliminary Empirical Investigation

      • John J. Donohue III, Peter Siegelman
      Pages 261-284

    2. Perceiving and Claiming Discrimination

      • Brenda Major, Cheryl R. Kaiser
      Pages 285-299

    3. Mobilizing Employment Rights in the Workplace

      • Catherine R. Albiston
      Pages 301-323

    4. The Intersectionality of Lived Experience and Anti-discrimination Empirical Research

      • Tanya Katerí Hernández
      Pages 325-335

    5. Law at Work: The Endogenous Construction of Civil Rights

      • Lauren B. Edelman
      Pages 337-352

    6. Discrimination against Caregivers? Gendered Family Responsibilities, Employer Practices, and Work Rewards

      • Erin L. Kelly
      Pages 353-374

  6. Social Psychology of Bias

    1. Aversive Racism: Bias without Intention

      • Samuel L. Gaertner, John F. Dovidio, Jason Nier, Gordon Hodson, Melissa A. Houlette
      Pages 377-393
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This volume contains a collection of original papers by leading legal scholars and social scientists that develop new perspectives on anti-discrimination law, with an emphasis on employment discrimination. The articles were written for a conference held at Stanford Law School in Spring 2003 that was sponsored by the American Bar Foundation and Stanford Law School. The purpose of that conference, this volume, and ongoing work by the Discrimination Research Group based at the American Bar FoundationandtheCenterforAdvancedStudyintheBehavioralSciencesistoadvance the social scienti?c understanding of employment discrimination and the operation of employment discrimination law as a social system, and to consider the legal and policy implications of this emerging body of social science. Now is a pivotal moment for an attempt at a deeper understanding of discrimi- tion and law. After three decades of theoretical development and empirical research onemploymentdiscriminationanditstreatmentinlaw,itiscrucialthatlawyers,social scientists,andpolicymakersassesswhatweknowanddonotknowaboutemployment discrimination and its treatment by law. To date, there are several streams of active research that only occasionally engage with each other. Economists and sociologists continue to debate the extent to which women, minorities, and other traditionally disadvantagedgroupsfacediscriminationinlabormarketsandorganizations. Orga- zation scholars and legal scholars have begun to map the effect of anti-discrimination law on organizational structures and processes, and to raise questions about the extent to which the legalization of organizational employment systems represents symbolic or substantive changes in employment practices.

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  • American Bar Foundation and Northwestern University, Chicago and Evanston, USA

    Laura Beth Nielsen, Robert L. Nelson

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