Rights at Work: Pay Equity Reform and the Politics of Legal Mobilization. (book reviews)

Michael McCann's Rights at Work is a book of broad scope and great theoretical sophistication. It examines the origins, development, and accomplishments of the movement for pay equity in the United States and its use of the legal system. The Pay Equity movement maintains that job categories that have traditionally been dominated by women or minorities remain undercompensated when compared with similar "male" jobs because of historic social and economic biases against these groups.

Equity activists urge systematic evaluation of the worth of job categories in terms of skill, ...

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