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Handbook of Employment Discrimination Research

Rights and Realities

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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

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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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Editors and Affiliations

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

    Laura Beth Nielsen, Robert L. Nelson

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Handbook of Employment Discrimination Research

  • Book Subtitle: Rights and Realities

  • Editors: Laura Beth Nielsen, Robert L. Nelson

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3455-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2005

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3370-4Published: 18 October 2005

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6847-7Published: 24 January 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3455-8Published: 01 January 2006

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 462

  • Topics: Social Sciences, general, Law, general, Labour Law/Social Law, Political Science

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