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100 1  Turk, Katherine,|eauthor. 
245 10 Equality on trial :|bgender and rights in the modern 
       American workplace /|cKatherine Turk. 
264  1 Philadelphia :|bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,|c[2016] 
264  4 |c©2016 
300    284 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
490 1  Politics and culture in modern America 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-272) and 
       index. 
505 0  Notions of sex equality -- Defining sex discrimination -- 
       Class and class action -- Feminism and workplace fairness 
       -- Reevaluating women's work -- Sex equality and the 
       service sector -- A man's world, but only for some -- 
       Opting out or buying in -- Illusions of sex equality. 
520    "In 1964, as part of its landmark Civil Rights Act, 
       Congress outlawed workplace discrimination on the basis of
       such personal attributes as sex, race, and religion. This 
       provision, known as Title VII, laid a new legal foundation
       for women's rights at work. Though President Kennedy and 
       other lawmakers expressed high hopes for Title VII, early 
       attempts to enforce it were inconsistent. In the absence 
       of a consensus definition of sex equality in the law or 
       society, Title VII's practical meaning was far from 
       certain. The first history to foreground Title VII's sex 
       provision, Equality on Trial examines how the law's 
       initial promise inspired a generation of Americans to 
       dispatch expansive notions of sex equality. Imagining new 
       solidarities and building a broad class politics, these 
       workers and activists engaged Title VII to generate a 
       pivotal battle over the terms of democracy and the role of
       the state in all labor relationships. But the law's 
       ambiguity also allowed for narrow conceptions of sex 
       equality to take hold. Conservatives found ways to bend 
       Title VII's possible meanings to their benefit, 
       discovering that a narrow definition of sex equality 
       allowed businesses to comply with the law without 
       transforming basic workplace structures or ceding power to
       workers. These contests to fix the meaning of sex equality
       ultimately laid the legal and cultural foundation for the 
       neoliberal work regimes that enabled some women to break 
       the glass ceiling as employers lowered the floor for 
       everyone else. Synthesizing the histories of work, social 
       movements, and civil rights in the postwar United States, 
       Equality on Trial recovers the range of protagonists whose
       struggles forged the contemporary meanings of feminism, 
       fairness, and labor rights"--Book jacket. 
610 10 United States.|tCivil Rights Act of 1964. 
630 07 Civil Rights Act of 1964 (United States)|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst01359378 
648  7 1900-1999|2fast 
650  0 Sex discrimination in employment|xLaw and legislation
       |zUnited States|xHistory|y20th century. 
650  0 Sex discrimination against women|xLaw and legislation
       |zUnited States|xHistory|y20th century. 
650  0 Sex discrimination in employment|zUnited States|xHistory
       |y20th century. 
650  0 Sex discrimination against women|zUnited States|xHistory
       |y20th century. 
650  7 Sex discrimination against women.|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst01114376 
650  7 Sex discrimination against women|xLaw and legislation.
       |2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01114381 
650  7 Sex discrimination in employment.|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst01114408 
650  7 Sex discrimination in employment|xLaw and legislation.
       |2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01114415 
651  7 United States.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204155 
655  7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628 
830  0 Politics and culture in modern America. 
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