Handbook of Employment Discrimination Research Rights and Realities
There is still much to learn about fundamental aspects of employment discrimination law as a social system. What drives the growing demand for litigation? To what extent does discrimination persist in subtle but pervasive forms and what explains how it va
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HANDBOOK OF EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION RESEARCH
HANDBOOK OF EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION RESEARCH Rights and Realities
Edited by LAURA BETH NIELSEN and ROBERT L. NELSON American Bar Foundation and Northwestern University Chicago and Evanston, USA
ISBN: 978-0-387-09466-3 softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3370-4 hardcover e-ISBN: 978-1-4020-3455-8 ebook A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. First softcover printing, 2008 ¤ 2005 Springer All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science + Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper. 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 springer.com
This book is dedicated to our children Ben, Hannah, Ian, Skyler, Willy, and Zach
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction Laura Beth Nielsen and Robert L. Nelson
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Section I Overview: Socio-Legal Approaches to Anti-Discrimination Law Chapter 1 Scaling the Pyramid: A Sociolegal Model of Employment Discrimination Litigation Laura Beth Nielsen and Robert L. Nelson Chapter 2 Law’s Role in Addressing Complex Discrimination Susan Sturm Chapter 3 What We Know About the Problem of the Century: Lessons from Social Science to the Law, and Back Susan T. Fiske
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Section II Debating the Prevalence and Character of Descrimination Chapter 4 Including Mechanisms in Our Models of Ascriptive Inequality Barbara F. Reskin Chapter 5 Understanding the Sources of Ethnic and Racial Wage Gaps and Their Implications for Policy Pedro Carneiro, James J. Heckman and Dimitriy V. Masterov Chapter 6 Discrimination in Consummated Car Purchases Ian Ayres vii
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viii Chapter 7 Racial Equality Without Equal Employment Opportunity? Lessons from a Labor Market for Professional Athletes William Bridges Chapter 8 Employment Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation: Dimensions of Difference Kathleen E. Hull Chapter 9 Occupational Mobility Among African-Americans: Assimilation or Resegregation Sharon M. Collins
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Section III Changing Boundaries: Historical and Social Development of Anti-Discrimination Law Chapter 10 Discrimination and Diplomacy: Recovering the Fuller National Stake in 1960s Civil Rights Reform Mary L. Dudziak Chapter 11 Sowing the Dragon’s Teeth: Materialization in Lesbian and Gay Anti-discrimination Rights Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller Chapter 12 Rights or Quotas? The ADA as a Model for Disability Rights Katharina Heyer
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