Rights on Trial - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rights on Trial write by Ellen Berrey. This book was released on 2017-06-22. Rights on Trial available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Gerry Handley faced years of blatant race-based harassment before he filed a complaint against his employer: racist jokes, signs reading “KKK” in his work area, and even questions from coworkers as to whether he had sex with his daughter as slaves supposedly did. He had an unusually strong case, with copious documentation and coworkers’ support, and he settled for $50,000, even winning back his job. But victory came at a high cost. Legal fees cut into Mr. Handley’s winnings, and tensions surrounding the lawsuit poisoned the workplace. A year later, he lost his job due to downsizing by his company. Mr. Handley exemplifies the burden plaintiffs bear in contemporary civil rights litigation. In the decades since the civil rights movement, we’ve made progress, but not nearly as much as it might seem. On the surface, America’s commitment to equal opportunity in the workplace has never been clearer. Virtually every company has antidiscrimination policies in place, and there are laws designed to protect these rights across a range of marginalized groups. But, as Ellen Berrey, Robert L. Nelson, and Laura Beth Nielsen compellingly show, this progressive vision of the law falls far short in practice. When aggrieved individuals turn to the law, the adversarial character of litigation imposes considerable personal and financial costs that make plaintiffs feel like they’ve lost regardless of the outcome of the case. Employer defendants also are dissatisfied with the system, often feeling “held up” by what they see as frivolous cases. And even when the case is resolved in the plaintiff’s favor, the conditions that gave rise to the lawsuit rarely change. In fact, the contemporary approach to workplace discrimination law perversely comes to reinforce the very hierarchies that antidiscrimination laws were created to redress. Based on rich interviews with plaintiffs, attorneys, and representatives of defendants and an original national dataset on case outcomes, Rights on Trial reveals the fundamental flaws of workplace discrimination law and offers practical recommendations for how we might better respond to persistent patterns of discrimination.
Rights on Trial
Rights on Trial - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rights on Trial write by Arthur Kinoy. This book was released on 1984-07. Rights on Trial available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Human Rights on Trial
Human Rights on Trial - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Human Rights on Trial write by Justine Lacroix. This book was released on 2018-05-31. Human Rights on Trial available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first contemporary overview of the critiques of human rights in Western political thought, from the French Revolution to the present day.
Rainforest Warriors
Rainforest Warriors - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rainforest Warriors write by Richard Price. This book was released on 2011-06-06. Rainforest Warriors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rainforest Warriors is a historical, ethnographic, and documentary account of a people, their threatened rainforest, and their successful attempt to harness international human rights law in their fight to protect their way of life—part of a larger story of tribal and indigenous peoples that is unfolding all over the globe. The Republic of Suriname, in northeastern South America, contains the highest proportion of rainforest within its national territory, and the most forest per person, of any country in the world. During the 1990s, its government began awarding extensive logging and mining concessions to multinational companies from China, Indonesia, Canada, and elsewhere. Saramaka Maroons, the descendants of self-liberated African slaves who had lived in that rainforest for more than 300 years, resisted, bringing their complaints to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. In 2008, when the Inter-American Court of Human Rights delivered its landmark judgment in their favor, their efforts to protect their threatened rainforest were thrust into the international spotlight. Two leaders of the struggle to protect their way of life, Saramaka Headcaptain Wazen Eduards and Saramaka law student Hugo Jabini, were awarded the Goldman Prize for the Environment (often referred to as the environmental Nobel Prize), under the banner of "A New Precedent for Indigenous and Tribal Peoples." Anthropologist Richard Price, who has worked with Saramakas for more than forty years and who participated actively in this struggle, tells the gripping story of how Saramakas harnessed international human rights law to win control of their own piece of the Amazonian forest and guarantee their cultural survival.
Rights on Trial
Rights on Trial - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rights on Trial write by Arthur Kinoy. This book was released on 1983. Rights on Trial available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Discusses issues surrounding such cases as Watergate, the Rosenbergs, the Civil Rights Movement, the Taft-Hartley Act, and the McCarthy Committee.
