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Author Mercat-Bruns, Marie, author.

Title Discrimination at work : comparing European, French, and American law / Marie Mercat-Bruns, translated from the French by Elaine Holt ; with a foreword by Christopher Kutz.

Publication Info. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]

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Edition [Open Access edition].
Description 1 online resource (xxi, 362 pages).
Series Luminos
Luminos (University of California Press)
Note Description based on Luminos online resource, viewed May 5, 2016; title from PDF title page.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents History of antidiscrimination law : the Constitution and the search for paradigms of equality -- Antidiscrimination models and enforcement -- Disparate treatment discrimination : intent, bias, and the burden of proof -- From disparate impact to systemic discrimination -- The multiple grounds of discrimination.
Summary "Do the United States and France, both post-industrial democracies, differ in their views and laws concerning discrimination? Marie Mercat-Bruns, a Franco-American scholar, examines the differences in how the two countries approach discrimination. Bringing together prominent legal scholars--including Robert Post, Linda Krieger, Martha Minow, Reva Siegel, Susan Sturm, Richard Ford, and others--Mercat-Bruns demonstrates how the two nations have adopted divergent strategies. The United States continues, with mixed success at "colorblind" policies, to deal with issues of diversity in university enrollment, class action sex-discrimination lawsuits, and rampant police violence against African American men and women. In France, the country has banned the full-face veil while making efforts to present itself as a secular republic. Young men and women whose parents and grandparents came from sub-Sahara and North Africa are stuck coping with a society that fails to take into account the barriers to employment and education they face. Discrimination at Work provides an incisive comparative analysis of how the nature of discrimination in both countries has changed, now often hidden, or steeped in deep unconscious bias. While it is rare for employers in both countries to openly discriminate, deep systemic discrimination exists, rooted in structural and environmental causes and the ways each state has dealt with difference in general. Invigorating and incisive, the book examines hot-button issues of sexual harassment, gender discrimination, and equality for LGBT individuals, delivering comparisons meant to further social equality and fundamental human rights across borders"--Provided by publisher.
Language Translated from the French.
Subject Discrimination in employment -- Law and legislation -- Interviews.
Lawyers -- United States -- Interviews.
Discrimination in employment -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Discrimination in employment -- Law and legislation -- France.
Discrimination in employment -- Law and legislation -- European Union countries.
Discrimination in employment -- Law and legislation. (OCoLC)fst00895060
Lawyers. (OCoLC)fst00994346
Europe -- European Union countries. (OCoLC)fst01269470
France. (OCoLC)fst01204289
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
Genre/Form Interviews. (OCoLC)fst01423832
Electronic books.
Added Author Holt, Elaine (Translator), translator.
Added Title Discriminations en droit du travail. English
Other Form: Print version: (DLC) 2015038337 9780520283800
ISBN 9780520959583 (electronic bk.)
0520959582 (electronic bk.)
0520959582
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