Institutional Inequality and the Mobilization of the Family and Medical Leave Act

by Catherine R. Albiston

Book Overview

How do Family and Medical Leave Act rights operate in practice in the courts and in the workplace? This empirical study examines how institutions and social practices transform the meaning of these rights to recreate inequality. Workplace rules and norms built around the family wage ideal, the assumption that disability and work are mutually exclusive, and management's historical control over time all constrain opportunities for social change. Yet...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521878977
• ISBN13: 9780521878975
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"