Rights on Trial
How Workplace Discrimination Law Perpetuates Inequality
- Contents
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List of Tables and Figures
Online Appendix
Part I. Introduction
Chapter 1. Introduction: Putting Rights on Trial
Chapter 2. Fifty Years of Employment Civil Rights
Chapter 3. A Quantitative Analysis of Employment Civil Rights Litigation: Case Characteristics, Plaintiff Characteristics, and Legal Outcomes
Part II. Narratives of Employment Civil Rights Litigation
Chapter 4. Workplace Wars: The Origins of Employment Civil Rights Lawsuits in the Workplace
Chapter 5. Representation and Race: Finding a Lawyer, Screening Clients, and the Production of Racial Disparities
Chapter 6. Representing Rights: Lawyer-Client Relationships
Chapter 7. Right Right, Wrong Plaintiff: Adversarial Conflict and the Disavowal of Discrimination
Chapter 8. Win, Lose, or Draw: Perspectives on Case Outcomes
Part III. Conclusion
Chapter 9. Stereotyping and the Reinscription of Race, Sex, Disability, and Age Hierarchies
Chapter 10. The Voices of Employment Civil Rights
Acknowledgments
Appendix
Notes
Sociology of Law section, American Sociological Association: Distinguished Book Award
Honorable Mention
Law and Legal Studies: Law and Society
Political Science: Race and Politics
Sociology: Formal and Complex Organizations
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