{"product_id":"equality-on-trial-gender-and-rights-in-the-modern-american-workplace-9780812224405","title":"Equality on Trial  Gender and Rights in the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Turk explains how sex equality at work came to be defined as women's access to the same jobs as men, with no acknowledgment of differences due to motherhood or consideration of the unpaid labor necessary to care for a family. . . . Turk's innovative and deeply researched book is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of women's labor and social policy.\" * \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"A truly original, deeply researched, eye-opening new account of the last half century of U.S. history that puts the struggle over gender and economic justice at its center.\" * Dorothy Sue Cobble, Rutgers University *\u003cbr\u003e\"Exhaustively researched and cogently argued, \u003ci\u003eEquality on Trial\u003c\/i\u003e transforms how we think of the 1964 Civil Rights Act's inclusion of sex.\" * Eileen Boris, University of California Santa Barbara *\u003cbr\u003e\"An extraordinary and extraordinarily important piece of scholarly work. Katherine Turk's \u003ci\u003eEquality on Trial\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunning achievement: deeply researched, powerfully argued, brilliantly elaborated, attentive to detail, nuance, complexity and contradiction, and never losing sight of the individual lives and livelihood at stake.\" * Barbara Welke, University of Minnesota *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. Notions of Sex Equality\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Defining Sex Discrimination\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Class and Class Action\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Feminism and Workplace Fairness\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Reevaluating Women's Work\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Sex Equality and the Service Sector\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. A Man's World, but Only for Some\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Opting Out or Buying In\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. Illusions of Sex Equality\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405706240343,"sku":"9780812224405","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812224405.jpg?v=1730493345","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/equality-on-trial-gender-and-rights-in-the-modern-american-workplace-9780812224405","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}