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Labor Law

Labor Law in a Nutshell by Peter Henning
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 1647087554
Publication Date: 2022-07-08
Reviews labor relations law in the United States from its origins to the creation of key statutory protections and the up to date developments of the modern-day National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Expert commentary offers insight into primary legal issues such as union organizing, picketing, employer responses, the duty to bargain, and enforcement of collective bargaining agreements and their arbitration provisions.
Labor Law Stories by Laura Cooper; Catherine Fisk
Call Number: West Online Study Aids
ISBN: 9781587788758
Publication Date: 2005-05-10
Tells the story of the development of labor law over the course of nearly seventy years - beginning with Mackay Radio, one of the earliest cases under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), and ending with Hoffman Plastic, one of the most recent. It includes cases from the major topics in a basic or advanced course on Labor Law, describing not only the doctrinal evolution of law under the NLRA, but also the impact of the law on the lives of the people involved. The authors interviewed dozens of participants in the fourteen cases addressed in the book.
Workers' Compensation and Employee Protection Laws in a Nutshell by Jack Hood; Benjamin Hardy Jr.; Lauren Simpson
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9781685610050
Publication Date: 2022-10-20
This compact, comprehensive reference guide covers workers' compensation and employee protection laws, stressing the rights and duties of both the employer and the employee in the workplace. The text pays special attention to the laws that protect the employee and answers the most common workers' compensation questions asked by students and lawyers. It is ideal both for use as a student study aid or review for the practitioner. Since the last edition, important U.S. Supreme Court cases have taken into account, statutes and reference materials have been updated, including the new rights and remedies granted to veterans in 2022, and COVID-19's impact on workers' compensation has been recognized.
Labor Law by Samuel Estreicher; Matthew Bodie
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9781642426915
Publication Date: 2020-01-30
Explains the analytical structure that governs how employees form workplace organizations and bargain over the terms and conditions of employment. It covers new forms of labor organizing, such as the corporate campaign, card check/neutrality agreements, and worker centers. It is designed to complement leading labor law casebooks with analysis of the principal decisions, context, and social justice policy. It reflects decisional and other developments through August 2019.
Employment Law by L. Hebert; Orly Lobel; S. Malloy; Marcia McCormick; Sandra Sperino; Mark Rothstein; Charles Craver
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9781642424072
Publication Date: 2019-07-08
Designed for use with any casebook, the Sixth Edition has been expanded and updated, including such new topics as whether just-in-time workers (e.g., Uber drivers) are employees or independent contractors, along with expert coverage of anti-discrimination laws, wage and hour law, ERISA, privacy in employment, OSHA, workers' compensation, restrictive covenants, wrongful discharge, unemployment compensation, and pensions.
Employment Law in a Nutshell by Robert N. Covington; Joseph A. Seiner
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9781636593838
Publication Date: 2022-03-11
This Nutshell provides an overview of individual employee rights and responsibilities. It addresses a number of areas, including establishing and ending the employment relationship, protection of employee privacy and reputation, discrimination, regulation of wages and hours, employee physical safety, fringe benefits, and employee duties of loyalty. This edition includes a discussion of the many changes in harassment law and the impact of the #MeToo movement, a look at the recent Supreme Court case law extending employment discrimination protections to sexual orientation and transgender status, an examination of the trend toward a more virtual economy and platform-based work, and a description of the changes in how employees work, and the terms of that work, in the face of an ongoing health pandemic.
Principles of Employment Law by Rafael Gely; Ann C. Hodges
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9781683283591
Publication Date: 2018-01-17
Provides a comprehensive overview of employment law and is a useful supplement to any employment law casebook. The book is divided into seven chapters. Chapter 1 examines who is an employee and who is an employer. Chapter 2 analyzes the employment-at-will doctrine and job security claims. Chapter 3 focuses on privacy, autonomy and dignity. Chapter 4 analyzes claims that employers may have against employees. Chapter 5 discusses employment terms and benefits that are directly mandated by law, like minimum wage, or strongly encouraged or regulated by law, such as pensions. Chapter 6 examines workplace health and safety. Finally, Chapter 7 discusses the expanding role of arbitration in the resolution of employment disputes.
High Court Case Summaries on Employment Law, Keyed to Rothstein by Publisher'S Editorial Staff
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9781634602495
Publication Date: 2016-08-02
This title contains briefs for each major case in Rothstein's casebook on Employment Law. These briefs will help you identify, understand, and absorb the core knowledge points from each case. They are followed by legal analysis, providing contextual background about each case, and connecting the case to the broader concepts developed throughout the casebook. This title also supplies case vocabulary, with definitions of new or unusual legal words found throughout the cases. Finally, to enhance your recall, there is a corresponding memory graphic for each brief that portrays a visual representation of the relevant facts or law of the case.

Scholarly Books

Bay Area

Women as Domestic Laborers

Refusing Settler Domesticity by Caitlin Keliiaa; Charlotte Coté (Series edited by); Coll Thrush (Series edited by)
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9780295753003
Publication Date: 2024-10-22
Traces young Native women’s lives and experiences as Bay Area domestic workers

In the early twentieth century, the Bay Area Outing Program coercively recruited over a thousand Native girls and women from boarding schools to labor as live-in domestic workers across the San Francisco Bay Area. Outing removed Native people from their communities and transferred them to white homes, farms, and businesses to work as menial laborers. In exchange for room, board, and meager pay, Native women and girls as young as twelve cooked, cleaned, and lived in the homes of their employers. Despite oppressive living and working conditions, they strategically resisted the worst aspects of outing, including Indian child removal, sexual surveillance, criminalization, and exploitation. Throughout, they forged social connections and navigated relationships to refuse domestication and assert their agency.

In this groundbreaking work, historian Caitlin Keliiaa examines Native women’s lived experiences of federal policy and connects outing to the region’s longer history of coerced Native labor. Refusing Settler Domesticity explores the unexpected story of Native women in the Bay Area, decades before Indian Relocation, illuminating the women who helped shape the Bay Area Indian community as we know it today. This book, as indictment, expands the existing work on Indian boarding schools, urban Indians, and the history of California and the West.

California

Domestic Economies: Women, Work, and the American Dream in Los Angeles by Susanna Rosenbaum
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 0822370026
Publication Date: 2017-12-08
In Domestic Economies, Susanna Rosenbaum examines how two groups of women—Mexican and Central American domestic workers and the predominantly white, middle-class women who employ them—seek to achieve the "American Dream." By juxtaposing their understandings and experiences, she illustrates how immigrant and native-born women strive to reach that ideal, how each group is indispensable to the other's quest, and what a vital role reproductive labor plays in this pursuit. Through in-depth ethnographic research with these women at work, at home, and in the urban spaces of Los Angeles, Rosenbaum positions domestic service as an intimate relationship that reveals two versions of female personhood. Throughout, Rosenbaum underscores the extent to which the ideology of the American Dream is racialized and gendered, exposing how the struggle for personal worth and social recognition is shaped at the intersection of motherhood and paid employment.
Domestica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence, With a New Preface by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9780520251717
Publication Date: 2007-03-20
In this enlightening and timely work, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo highlights the voices, experiences, and views of Mexican and Central American women who care for other people's children and homes, as well as the outlooks of the women who employ them in Los Angeles. The new preface looks at the current issues facing immigrant domestic workers in a global context.

African-American Women

Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement by Premilla Nadasen
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9780807033197
Publication Date: 2016-09-06
Telling the stories of African American domestic workers, this book resurrects a little-known history of domestic worker activism in the 1960s and 1970s, offering new perspectives on race, labor, feminism, and organizing.

In this groundbreaking history of African American domestic-worker organizing, scholar and activist Premilla Nadasen shatters countless myths and misconceptions about an historically misunderstood workforce. Resurrecting a little-known history of domestic-worker activism from the 1950s to the 1970s, Nadasen shows how these women were a far cry from the stereotyped passive and powerless victims; they were innovative labor organizers who tirelessly organized on buses and streets across the United States to bring dignity and legal recognition to their occupation.

Dismissed by mainstream labor as “unorganizable,” African American household workers developed unique strategies for social change and formed unprecedented alliances with activists in both the women’s rights and the black freedom movements. Using storytelling as a form of activism and as means of establishing a collective identity as workers, these women proudly declared, “We refuse to be your mammies, nannies, aunties, uncles, girls, handmaidens any longer.”

With compelling personal stories of the leaders and participants on the front lines, Household Workers Unite gives voice to the poor women of color whose dedicated struggle for higher wages, better working conditions, and respect on the job created a sustained political movement that endures today.
Opportunity Denied: Limiting Black Women to Devalued Work by Enobong Branch
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 0813551234
Publication Date: 2011-09-08
Blacks and Whites. Men and Women. Historically, each group has held very different types of jobs. The divide between these jobs was stark—clean or dirty, steady or inconsistent, skilled or unskilled. In such a rigidly segregated occupational landscape, race and gender radically limited labor opportunities, relegating Black women to the least desirable jobs. Opportunity Denied is the first comprehensive look at changes in race, gender, and women’s work across time, comparing the labor force experiences of Black women to White women, Black men and White men. Enobong Hannah Branch merges empirical data with rich historical detail, offering an original overview of the evolution of Black women’s work.

From free Black women in 1860 to Black women in 2008, the experience of discrimination in seeking and keeping a job has been determinedly constant. Branch focuses on occupational segregation before 1970 and situates the findings of contemporary studies in a broad historical context, illustrating how inequality can grow and become entrenched over time through the institution of work.

United States

A Mother's Work How Feminism, the Market, and Policy Shape Family Life by Neil Gilbert
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9780300164619
Publication Date: 2010-05-25
A fresh perspective on the struggle to balance work and family life

The question of how best to combine work and family life has led to lively debates in recent years. Both a lifestyle and a policy issue, it has been addressed psychologically, socially, and economically, and conclusions have been hotly contested. But as Neil Gilbert shows in this penetrating and provocative book, we haven’t looked closely enough at how and why these questions are framed, or who benefits from the proposed answers.

A Mother’s Work takes a hard look at the unprecedented rise in childlessness, along with the outsourcing of family care and household production, which have helped to alter family life since the 1960s. It challenges the conventional view on how to balance motherhood and employment, and examines how the choices women make are influenced by the culture of capitalism, feminist expectations, and the social policies of the welfare state. Gilbert argues that while the market ignores the essential value of a mother’s work, prevailing norms about the social benefits of work have been overvalued by elites whose opportunities and circumstances little resemble those of most working- and middle-class mothers. And the policies that have been crafted too often seem friendlier to the market than to the family. Gilbert ends his discussion by looking at the issue internationally, and he makes the case for reframing the debate to include a wider range of social values and public benefits that present more options for managing work and family responsibilities.

International

Effective Protection for Domestic Workers: A guide to designing labour laws by International Labor International Labor Office
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9789221252757
Publication Date: 2012-06-20
This guide is a practical tool for those involved in national legislative processes and in the design of labour laws, including government officials and representatives of workers’ and employers’ organizations.
Global Domestic Workers: Intersectional Inequalities and Struggles for Rights by Sabrina Marchetti; Daniela Cherubini; Giulia Garofalo Geymonat
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 1529207886
Publication Date: 2021-10-11
Drawing from the EU-funded DomEQUAL research project across 9 countries in Europe, South America and Asia, this comparative study explores the conditions of domestic workers around the world and the campaigns they are conducting to improve their labour rights.

The book showcases how domestic workers’ movements put ‘intersectionality in action’ in representing the interest of various marginalized social groups from migrants and low-income groups to racialized and rural girls and women.

Casting light on issues such as subjectification, and collective organizing on the part of a category of workers conventionally regarded as unorganizable, this ambitious volume will be invaluable for scholars, policy makers and activists alike.
Combining Work and Care Carer Leave and Related Employment Policies in International Context by Shingou Ikeda (Contribution by); Kate O'Loughlin (Contribution by); Tatjana Rakar (Contribution by); Masa Filipovič Hrast (Contribution by); Valentina Hlebec (Contribution by); Anna Ruzik-Sierdzińska (Contribution by); Jolanta Perek-Bialas (Contribution by); Alison Williams (Contribution by); Linnéa Aldman (Contribution by); Eva Sennemark (Contribution by); Elizabeth Hanson (Contribution by); Camille Allard (Contribution by); Emilia Leinonen (Contribution by); Jacquie Eales (Contribution by); Katja Knauthe (Contribution by); Andreas Hoff (Contribution by); Kate Hamblin (Editor); Jason Heyes (Editor); Janet Fast (Editor)
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9781447365709
Publication Date: 2024-07-23
The proportion of employees with caring responsibilities is growing and, as a result, policies that support working carers are becoming increasingly important.

Written and informed by national experts, this is the first publication to provide a detailed examination of the development and implementation of carer leave policies and policies in nine countries across Asia, Oceania, Europe and North America.

It compares the origins, content and implications of national policies and practices intended to enable workers to provide care to family members and friends while remaining in paid employment – known as ‘carer leave’.
What's Wrong with Work? by Lynne Pettinger
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 1447340086
Publication Date: 2019-05-24
Why does work matter? As changes occur in how work is organised across the globe, What’s wrong with work shows that how workers are treated has wide implications beyond the lives of workers themselves.

Recognising gender, race, class and global differences, the book looks at three kinds of increasingly important work – green work, IT work and the ‘gig’ economy - within the context of the neoliberal society, the promises of technologisation and anticipated environmental catastrophe. It considers the ways formal work is often dependent on informal work, especially domestic work and care work.

Accessible and engaging, it concludes by considering political and ethical questions in what might make work better, arguing that there is a collective responsibility to address bad work.

Historical Books

Thursdays and Every Other Sunday Off by Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor; Premilla Nadasen (Foreword by)
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9781517906078
Publication Date: 2018-12-18
Observations from the lives of African American domestic workers

Thursdays and Every Other Sunday Off is an exploration of the lives of African American domestic workers in cities throughout the United States during the mid-twentieth century. With dry wit and honesty, Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor relates the testimonies of maids, cooks, child care workers, and others as they discuss their relationships with their employers and their experiences on the job. She connects this work with popular culture, presenting Aunt Jemima, Mammies, Uncle Ben, and other charged figures through the eyes of domestic workers as opposed to their employers, and remembers her own family history (her mother and grandmother were domestic workers after migrating to Philadelphia from South Carolina). Interspersed with musings and interviews are historical references, quotations, and personal anecdotes that make this account all the more intimate, heartbreaking, and relevant.
The Irish Bridget: Irish Immigrant Women in Domestic Service in America, 1840-1930 by Margaret Lynch-Brennan
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9780815632016
Publication Date: 2009-04-30
"Bridget" was the Irish immigrant servant girl who worked in American homes from the second half of the nineteenth century into the early years of the twentieth. She is widely known as a pop culture cliché: the young girl who wreaked havoc in middle-class American homes. Now, in the first book-length treatment of the topic, Margaret Lynch-Brennan tells the real story of such Irish domestic servants, providing a richly detailed portrait of their lives and experiences. Drawing on personal correspondence and other primary sources, Lynch-Brennan gives voice to these young Irish women and celebrates their untold contribution to the ethnic history of the United States. In addition, recognizing the interest of scholars in contemporary domestic service, she devotes one chapter to comparing "Bridget’s" experience to that of other ethnic women over time in domestic service in America.
Matrons and Maids: Regulating Indian Domestic Service in Tucson, 1914–1934 by Victoria K. Haskins
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9780816536559
Publication Date: 2017-01-24
From 1914 to 1934 the US government sent Native American girls to work as domestic servants in the homes of white families. Matrons and Maids tells this forgotten history through the eyes of the women who facilitated their placements. During those two decades, “outing matrons” oversaw and managed the employment of young Indian women. In Tucson, Arizona, the matrons acted as intermediaries between the Indian and white communities and between the local Tucson community and the national administration, the Office of Indian Affairs.

Based on federal archival records, Matrons and Maids offers an original and detailed account of government practices and efforts to regulate American Indian women. Haskins demonstrates that the outing system was clearly about regulating cross-cultural interactions, and she highlights the roles played by white women in this history. As she compellingly argues, we cannot fully engage with cross-cultural histories without examining the complex involvement of white women as active, if ambivalent, agents of colonization.

Including stories of the entwined experiences of Indigenous and non-Indigenous women that range from the heart-warming to the heart-breaking, Matrons and Maids presents a unique perspective on the history of Indian policy and the significance of “women’s work.”
The Maid Narratives: Black Domestics and White Families in the Jim Crow South by Katherine van Wormer; David W. Jackson; Charletta Sudduth
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9780807149683
Publication Date: 2012-09-17
The Maid Narratives shares the memories of black domestic workers and the white families they served, uncovering the often intimate relationships between maid and mistress. Based on interviews with over fifty people -- both white and black -- these stories deliver a personal and powerful message about resilience and resistance in the face of oppression in the Jim Crow South.
The housekeepers, caretakers, sharecroppers, and cooks who share their experiences in The Maid Narratives ultimately moved away during the Great Migration. Their perspectives as servants who left for better opportunities outside of the South offer an original telling of physical and psychological survival in a racially oppressive caste system: Vinella Byrd, for instance, from Pine Bluff, Arkansas, recalls how a farmer she worked for would not allow her to clean her hands in the family's wash pan. These narratives are complemented by the voices of white women, such as Flora Templeton Stuart, from New Orleans, who remembers her maid fondly but realizes that she knew little about her life. Like Stuart, many of the white narrators remain troubled by the racial norms of the time. Viewed as a whole, the book presents varied, rich, and detailed accounts, often tragic, and sometimes humorous. The Maid Narratives reveals, across racial lines, shared hardships, strong emotional ties, and inspiring strength.
Making Care Count by Mignon Duffy
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9780813549606
Publication Date: 2011-02-17
There are fundamental tasks common to every society: children have to be raised, homes need to be cleaned, meals need to be prepared, and people who are elderly, ill, or disabled need care. Day in, day out, these responsibilities can involve both monotonous drudgery and untold rewards for those performing them, whether they are family members, friends, or paid workers. These are jobs that cannot be outsourced, because they involve the most intimate spaces of our everyday lives--our homes, our bodies, and our families.

Mignon Duffy uses a historical and comparative approach to examine and critique the entire twentieth-century history of paid care work--including health care, education and child care, and social services--drawing on an in-depth analysis of U.S. Census data as well as a range of occupational histories. Making Care Count focuses on change and continuity in the social organization along with cultural construction of the labor of care and its relationship to gender, racial-ethnic, and class inequalities. Debunking popular understandings of how we came to be in a "care crisis," this book stands apart as an historical quantitative study in a literature crowded with contemporary, qualitative studies, proposing well-developed policy approaches that grow out of the theoretical and empirical arguments.
Domesticity and Dirt by Phyllis Palmer
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9780877229018
Publication Date: 1991-08-08
In the era after Suffrage, white middle-class housewives abandoned moves toward paid work for themselves, embraced domestic life, and felt entitled to servants. In Domesticity and Dirt, Phyllis Palmer examines the cultural norms that led such women to take on the ornamental and emotional elements of the job while relegating the hard physical work and demeaning service tasks to servants―mainly women of color. Using novels, films, magazine articles, home economics texts, and government-funded domestic training course manuals, the author details cultural expectations about middle-class homelife.

Palmer describes how government-funded education programs encouraged the divisions of labor and identity and undercut domestic workers’ organized efforts during the 1930s to win inclusion in New Deal programs regulating labor conditions. Aided by less powerful black civil rights groups, without the assistance of trade unions or women’s clubs, domestics failed to win legal protections and the legal authority and self-respect these brought to covered workers. The author also reveals how middle- class women responded ambivalently to the call to aid women workers when labor reforms threatened their domestic arrangements.

Throughout her study, Palmer questions why white middle-class women looked to new technology and domestic help to deal with cultural demands upon "the perfect housewife" rather than expecting their husbands to help. When the supply of servants declined during the 1950s, middle-class housewives were left isolated with lots of housework. Although they rapidly followed their servants into paid work outside the home, they remain responsible for housework and child care.
Putting Their Hands on Race by Danielle T. Phillips-Cunningham
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9781978800465
Publication Date: 2019-12-13
Putting Their Hands on Race offers an important labor history of 19th and early 20th century Irish immigrant and US southern Black migrant domestic workers. Drawing on a range of archival sources, this intersectional study explores how these women were significant to the racial labor and citizenship politics of their time. Their migrations to northeastern cities challenged racial hierarchies and formations. Southern Black migrant women resisted the gendered racism of domestic service, and Irish immigrant women strove to expand whiteness to position themselves as deserving of labor rights. On the racially fractious terrain of labor, Black women and Irish immigrant women, including Victoria Earle Matthews, the “Irish Rambler”, Leonora Barry, and Anna Julia Cooper, gathered data, wrote letters and speeches, marched, protested, engaged in private acts of resistance in the workplace, and created women’s institutions and organizations to assert domestic workers’ right to living wages and protection.
Unprotected Labor: Household Workers, Politics, and Middle-Class Reform in New York, 1870-1940 by Vanessa H. May
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9780807871935
Publication Date: 2011-06-01
Through an analysis of women's reform, domestic worker activism, and cultural values attached to public and private space, Vanessa May explains how and why domestic workers, the largest category of working women before 1940, were excluded from labor protections that formed the foundation of the welfare state. Looking at the debate over domestic service from both sides of the class divide, Unprotected Labor assesses middle-class women's reform programs as well as household workers' efforts to determine their own working conditions.
May argues that working-class women sought to define the middle-class home as a workplace even as employers and reformers regarded the home as private space. The result was that labor reformers left domestic workers out of labor protections that covered other women workers in New York between the late nineteenth century and the New Deal. By recovering the history of domestic workers as activists in the debate over labor legislation, May challenges depictions of domestics as passive workers and reformers as selfless advocates of working women. Unprotected Labor illuminates how the domestic-service debate turned the middle-class home inside out, making private problems public and bringing concerns like labor conflict and government regulation into the middle-class home.

Domestic Workers in Art and Literature

Domestic Disturbances: Re-Imagining Narratives of Gender, Labor, and Immigration by Irene Mata
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9780292771314
Publication Date: 2014-11-15
The issue of immigration is one of the most hotly debated topics in the national arena, with everyone from right-wing pundits like Sarah Palin to alternative rockers like Zack de la Rocha offering their opinion. The traditional immigrant narrative that gained popularity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries continues to be used today in describing the process of the "Americanization" of immigrants. Yet rather than acting as an accurate representation of immigrant experiences, this common narrative of the "American Dream" attempts to ideologically contain those experiences within a story line that promotes the idea of achieving success through hard work and perseverance.

In Domestic Disturbances, Irene Mata dispels the myth of the "shining city on the hill" and reveals the central truth of hidden exploitation that underlies the great majority of Chicana/Latina immigrant stories. Influenced by the works of Latina cultural producers and the growing interdisciplinary field of scholarship on gender, immigration, and labor, Domestic Disturbances suggests a new framework for looking at these immigrant and migrant stories, not as a continuation of a literary tradition, but instead as a specific Latina genealogy of immigrant narratives that more closely engage with the contemporary conditions of immigration. Through examination of multiple genres including film, theatre, and art, as well as current civil rights movements such as the mobilization around the DREAM Act, Mata illustrates the prevalence of the immigrant narrative in popular culture and the oppositional possibilities of alternative stories.
Not Your Mother's Mammy by Tracey L. Walters
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9781978808577
Publication Date: 2021-04-16
Not Your Mother’s Mammy examines how black artists of the African diaspora, many of them former domestics, reconstruct the black female subjectivities of domestics in fiction, film, and visual and performance art. In doing so, they undermine one-dimensional images of black domestics as victims lacking voice and agency and prove domestic workers are more than the aprons they wear. An analysis of selected media by Alice Childress, Nandi Keyi, Victoria Brown, Kara Walker, Mikalene Thomas, Rene Cox, Lynn Nottage, and others provides examples of generations of domestics who challenged their performative roles of subservience by engaging in subversive actions contradicting the image of the deferential black maid. Through verbal confrontation, mobilization, passive resistance, and performance, black domestics find their voices, exercise their power, and maintain their dignity in the face of humiliation. Not Your Mother’s Mammy brings to life stories of domestics often neglected in academic studies, such as the complexity of interracial homoerotic relationships between workers and employers, or the mental health challenges of domestics that lead to depression and suicide. In line with international movements like #MeToo and #timesup, the women in these stories demand to be heard.

Memoire

Hush Now, Baby: A Memoir by Angela W. Williams
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9781680030341
Publication Date: 2015-05-06
Hush Now, Baby is the story of how a little white girl climbed out of an uneasy childhood in the segregated South…on the backbone of a black woman who loved her unabashedly. A host of African-American women permeated Southern families. One of those stalwart women was Eva Aiken, a central figure in the author’s life from her birth…until Eva staged a sit-in at the girl’s wedding.

The story captures the glorious early years of the Lowcountry South Carolina family then graphically depicts its unraveling. Eva holds them together. The family and the country’s parallel struggles converge. The author lives in bubble-wrap until Civil Rights issues escalate. This story is told without pathos and with graceful restraint—the Southern way.

Labor & Employment Law Treatises/Practice Guides

Employee and Union Member Guide to Labor Law by National Lawyers Guild Staff
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 0876321139
Publication Date: 1992-10-01
Offering labor's perspective on significant areas of labor law, Employee and Union Member Guide to Labor Law provides proven strategies for labor activists, as well as the text of major federal statutes. It also discusses the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act, and relevant case law, as well as other federal employment discrimination laws.

This three-volume set covers:

Opposing discriminatory discharges
The right to strike and other forms of economic action
The rights of construction workers
The WARN Act
Representing unions and employees in bankruptcy cases
Pensions and other employee benefits
Job restructuring as a reasonable accommodation
Employment Law
Call Number: Online
Marcia L. McCormick, Mark A. Rothstein, Orly Lobel, S. Elizabeth Malloy, Rafael Gely, Susan E. Cancelosi, and Michael C. Duff
Employment Discrimination Law & Litigation
Call Number: Online
This treatise provides both a comprehensive analysis of workplace discrimination law and explores the full array of litigation issues, including pleadings, discovery, motions to dismiss and for summary judgment, conducting internal investigations, trial strategy and evidence, use of expert witnesses, damages and attorneys' fees, and tax and insurance considerations. The set covers Title VII (race, sex, religion, national origin), Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), actions against state and local governments under § 1983 and the Constitution, § 1981 (race), and Equal Pay Act (EPA).
California Civil Practice-Employment Litigation
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Topics covered include preemployment and hiring, wages and hours, and working conditions. Explore statutes and cases regarding discrimination, termination of employment, unemployment and disability insurance, labor unions and collective bargaining, plus employer actions against employees. Procedural checklists help keep your case on track. Extensive bibliographies assist in furthering your research. Forms for drafting complaints and causes of action are also included.

Employment Litigation (The Rutter Group, California Practice Guide) by Justice Ming W. Chin, Hon. Rebecca A. Wiseman (Ret.), Hon. Consuelo Maria Callahan, David A. Lowe
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Contains the federal and California state law and procedure you need to know when handling employment cases in state and federal court. Judges and experienced practitioners guide you through each major area from job application through termination, including discrimination, harassment, wages and hours, leaves, tort and contract wrongful discharge claims, and much more. Forms with comments are also included. Contents cover:
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Employment contract claims
Employment torts and related claims
Layoffs and plant closings
Employment discrimination in general
Age discrimination
Disability discrimination
Harassment
Compensation
Leaves of absence
Workplace safety
Unfair competition
Preemption
Other defenses
Remedies
Settlement and ADR
Practice and procedure
Professional responsibility
Insurance and indemnification
This multivolume set:
Cites the latest cases available, plus statutes and rules of court
Provides proven strategies, tactics, and time-saving tips from experienced practitioners
Develops each topic and procedure step by step, showing you what, when, where and how to do it
Contains illustrations based on actual cases.

Guide to Employment Law & Regulation
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Guide to Employment Law and Regulation, 2d (GELR) is a treatise that provides up-to-date summaries of employment law changes. Quarterly updates cover fair employment practices and civil rights, wages and hours, labor relations, occupational safety, and benefits. GELR includes concise digests of employment laws in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Labor & Employment Law: Compliance & Litigation
Attorneys and HR professionals alike will find useful guidance and practical tips on the most common fact patterns, based on cases and actual experience. Topics include:

Employment at will
Employment discrimination
Rights and remedies
Unions and management
Discussions of OSHA and ERISA litigation
Grievances and arbitration
Wage and hour law
Labor & Employment Treatises on Westlaw
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Access to CEB's numerous California-focused practice guides, action guides, legal reporters, and forms, as well as searchable primary case law. The platform also includes unlimited access to CEB's library of CLE videos. Free to UC Law SF students, faculty and staff. Registration required; to register, go to www.ceb.com/lawschool and use code HCX25 to register.
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Collection of resources prepared for and by practitioners. Materials include treatises, CLE course books and program transcripts, Answer Books and sample forms. Includes materials on labor and employment law.
Employment and labor law Treatises, Answer Books and Course Handbooks
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ABA/Bloomberg Law, Employment Discrimination Law
Employment Discrimination Law has been the definitive treatise in this complex and highly detailed area of law. Experienced practitioners offer analysis from a range of perspectives including management, plaintiff, union, and public practice, providing a balanced presentation of issues surrounding discrimination in the workplace. It offers the most comprehensive coverage and unbiased analysis of employment discrimination law available anywhere.
Gender Identity & Sexual Orientation Discrimination in the Workplace
The first book to comprehensively address workplace law and human resource practice relating to gender identity, sexual orientation, and gender expression, Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Discrimination in the Workplace is a must-have for labor and employment lawyers and human resource (HR) professionals. Antidiscrimination law in this area has exploded over the past five years as more states and courts have expanded the law to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) employees. This groundbreaking volume extensively discusses the current status of this rapidly changing area of law and serves as a critical tool for workplace law practitioners. This new treatise surveys state and federal employment laws applicable to LGBT employees and discusses a wide range of HR best practices. Both legal and HR components are contextualized by a collection of 19 essays discussing the implications of gender and sexual orientation in society, across areas such as education, religion, and the workplace, as well in the lives of several essayists who have shared their personal stories and recommendations for employers, thus making this volume an invaluable all-in-one resource. Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Discrimination in the Workplace explores: Employment discrimination laws, immigration law, labor arbitration, and plaintiff and defense litigation tactics and strategies Landmark decisions in Schroer v. Billington, Glenn v. Brumby, Macy v. Holder, and United States v. Windsor Summaries of employment laws relating to LGBT issues in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico Practical solutions for HR professionals implementing policies, practices, and programs that respond to the changes in the law and the growing social acceptance of LGBT employees Intersections of gender and sexual orientation with culture, education, politics, religion, and the workplace In addition, this book also features detailed case summaries, coverage of Title VII and ADA case law, and a comprehensive discussion of the challenges presented by LGBT terminology. Written and reviewed by more than 125 expert contributors on both sides of the employee management divide, this treatise provides both insightful commentary and pragmatic guidance with regard to navigating this evolving area of antidiscrimination law in the workplace.
Workplace Harassment Law
Much has changed since the First Edition of Workplace Harassment Law was published. The #MeToo movement has focused scrutiny on workplace harassment. The EEOC has published new enforcement guidance affecting workplace harassment law, including its 2017 proposed enforcement guidance. The Office of Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education has issued a revised process for discrimination complaints under Title IX and other federal statutes. Courts have recognized new protected statuses, and have expanded existing protected statuses under Title VII and other federal and state law. Class actions and criminal prosecutions for workplace harassment have increased. And, the Supreme Court has issued six significant opinions, at least two of which have modified prior harassment law. All of these developments make the Second Edition a must have resource. It features new chapters reflecting the expansion of the practice area, together with updated chapters discussing each protected status, the causal connection between harassment and liability for employers and alleged harassers, potential defenses, the nuts and bolts of bringing and defending claims, and much more. Hot-button topics covered in Workplace Harassment Law, Second Edition include: The Impact of the #MeToo Movement, new EEOC Enforcement Guidance, and new Supreme Court cases (NEW) Administrative exhaustion and the EEOC Investigation and Enforcement processes The OCR process as revised and liability under Title IX (NEW) Harassment Based on: Gender Race National Origin/Ethnicity/Ancestry/Alienage Religion Age Disability Association Gender Non-Conformity/Stereotype/Identity/Orientation (NEW) Multiple Status/Intersectionality (NEW) Bystander/Third Party status Employer liability for quid pro quo harassment or harassment by an employer or an employer s proxy or alter-ego Employer vicarious liability for hostile work environments created by supervisors through tangible adverse employment actions or created by managers, coworkers and non-employees, and available defenses The standard of objectively and subjectively severe or pervasive harassment to be met for actionable harassment Employer liability for constructive discharge and retaliation, and available defenses Collective bargaining issues Workplace bullying (NEW) Theories of liability available under state law, common law, and criminal law Procedural and evidentiary issues, defenses, injunctive and monetary relief, and attorneys fee issues Settlement issues, including Tax Reform Act constraints
Guide to Federal Employment Nondiscrimination Laws
Coverage
Types of Discrimination
Employment Decisions and Practices
Disability Discrimination and Accommodation
EEO Compliance and Administrative Process
Litigation and Resolution.
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