Invisible Hands, Invisible Objectives

Invisible Hands, Invisible Objectives
Author: Stephen F. Befort
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 419
Release: 2009-06-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 080477126X

The global financial crisis and recession have placed great strains on the free market ideology that has emphasized economic objectives and unregulated markets. The balance of economic and noneconomic goals is under the microscope in every sector of the economy. It is time to re-think the objectives of the employment relationship and the underlying assumptions of how that relationship operates. Invisible Hands, Invisible Objectives develops a fresh, holistic framework to fundamentally reexamine U.S. workplace regulation. A new scorecard for workplace law and public policy that embraces equity and voice for employees and economic efficiency will reveals significant deficiencies in our current practices. To create one, the authors—a legal scholar and an economics and industrial relations scholar—blend their expertise to propose a comprehensive set of reforms, tackling such issues as regulatory enforcement, portable employee benefits, training programs, living wages, workplace safety and health, work-family balance, security and social safety nets, nondiscrimination, good-cause dismissal, balanced income distributions, free speech protections for employees, individual and collective workplace decision-making, and labor unions. Invisible Hands, Invisible Objectives is not just another book that sketches a reform agenda. The book provides the much-needed rubric for how we think about employment policy specifically, but also economic policy more generally. It is a must-read in these most critical times.

Harvard Law Review: Volume 128, Number 2 - December 2014

Harvard Law Review: Volume 128, Number 2 - December 2014
Author: Harvard Law Review
Publisher: Quid Pro Books
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2014-12-10
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1610278534

The Harvard Law Review is offered in a digital edition for ereaders, featuring active Contents, linked notes, and proper ebook formatting. The contents of Number 2 include: • Article, “The (Non)Finality of Supreme Court Opinions,” by Richard J. Lazarus • Book Review, “The Laws of Capitalism,” by David Singh Grewal • Note, “Citizens United at Work: How the Landmark Decision Legalized Political Coercion in the Workplace” • Note, “Data Mining, Dog Sniffs, and the Fourth Amendment” • Note, “Nonbinding Bondage” The issue includes In Memoriam contributions about the life, scholarship, and teaching of John H. Mansfield. The contributors are Anthony D'Amato, Robert W. Gordon, Martha Minow, Frederick Schauer, and James A. Sonne. In addition, the issue features student commentary on Recent Cases and policy papers, including such subjects as internet law and privacy, Fourth Amendment right to deletion, state action and credit card fees, antitrust law and foreign trade, applicability of Seventh Amendment to states and commonwealths, free speech and tour guide licensing in D.C., labor law and sexual harassment claims, and gender crimes in international criminal law. Finally, the issue includes several summaries of Recent Publications. The Harvard Law Review is a student-run organization whose primary purpose is to publish a journal of legal scholarship. The Review comes out monthly from November through June. The organization is formally independent of the Harvard Law School. Student editors make all editorial and organizational decisions. This issue of the Review is December 2014, the second issue of academic year 2014-2015 (Volume 128).

Yale Law Journal: Volume 123, Number 3 - December 2013

Yale Law Journal: Volume 123, Number 3 - December 2013
Author: Yale Law Journal
Publisher: Quid Pro Books
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2013-12-18
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1610278712

The December issue of The Yale Law Journal (the third of Volume 123, academic year 2013-2014) features new articles and essays on law and legal theory by internationally recognized scholars. Contents include: * Article, "The Interpretation-Construction Distinction in Patent Law," by Tun-Jen Chiang & Lawrence B. Solum * Article, "Agencies as Litigation Gatekeepers," by David Freeman Engstrom * Essay,"Tops, Bottoms, and Versatiles: What Straight Views of Penetrative Preferences Could Mean for Sexuality Claims Under Price Waterhouse," by Ian Ayres & Richard Luedeman * Review, "Why Protect Religious Freedom?," by Michael W. McConnell * Note, "The Case for Tax: A Comparative Approach to Innovation Policy," by Shaun P. Mahaffy Quality ebook formatting includes fully linked footnotes, active Table of Contents (including linked Contents for individual articles), active URLs in notes, and properly presented tables and graphs throughout.

The Law of Political Economy

The Law of Political Economy
Author: Poul F. Kjaer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 423
Release: 2020-04-23
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108493114

"Political economy themes have - directly and indirectly - been a central concern of law and legal scholarship ever since political economy emerged as a concept in the early seventeenth century, a development which was re-inforced by the emergence of political economy as an independent area of scholarly enquiry in the eighteenth century, as developed by the French physiocrats. This is not surprising in so far as the core institutions of the economy and economic exchanges, such as property and contract, are legal institutions.In spite of this intrinsic link, political economy discourses and legal discourses dealing with political economy themes unfold in a largely separate manner. Indeed, this book is also a reflection of this, in so far as its core concern is how the law and legal scholarship conceive of and approach political economy issues"--

Data and Democracy at Work

Data and Democracy at Work
Author: Brishen Rogers
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2023-03-21
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0262545136

An exploration of how major companies have used advanced information technologies to limit worker power, and how labor law reform could reverse that trend. As our economy has shifted away from industrial production and service industries have become dominant, many of the nation's largest employers are now in fields like retail, food service, logistics, and hospitality. These companies have turned to data-driven surveillance technologies that operate over a vast distance, enabling cheaper oversight of massive numbers of workers. Data and Democracy at Work argues that companies often use new data-driven technologies as a power resource—or even a tool of class domination—and that our labor laws allow them to do so. Employers have established broad rights to use technology to gather data on workers and their performance, to exclude others from accessing that data, and to use that data to refine their managerial strategies. Through these means, companies have suppressed workers' ability to organize and unionize, thereby driving down wages and eroding working conditions. Labor law today encourages employer dominance in many ways—but labor law can also be reformed to become a tool for increased equity. The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent Great Resignation have indicated an increased political mobilization of the so-called essential workers of the pandemic, many of them service industry workers. This book describes the necessary legal reforms to increase workers' associational power and democratize workplace data, establishing more balanced relationships between workers and employers and ensuring a brighter and more equitable future for us all.

Rethinking Job Security

Rethinking Job Security
Author: Joanna Howe
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2016-10-14
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1317064038

This book critically examines the proper role of the law in protecting job security in the contemporary workplace. It provides a historical, theoretical, practical and comparative perspective on this under-researched, but fundamentally important, legal mechanism at a time when the pressure to deregulate and dilute worker-protective laws has taken on increased importance. The volume critically analyses both statute and case law from three advanced industrialised liberal democracies with a common law foundation, the UK, Australia and the USA, to understand the extent to which job security is realised. By applying a common approach and a conceptual framework that emphasises the complex relationships between law, the economy and society to analyse a series of national studies, the book is also designed to draw upon the insights of comparative analysis to deepen our understanding of the limits and possibilities of legal regulation of job security. The national case studies are supplemented by research that focuses on how supra-national organisations have sought both to develop and disseminate new legal norms around the practices and processes of dismissal. This study critically analyses and assesses the adequacy of the international regulatory framework for protecting the rights of employees in the dismissal process.

Deleuze, Guattari and India

Deleuze, Guattari and India
Author: Ian Buchanan
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2021-09-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 100045696X

This book presents a pragmatic engagement between the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari and various facets of Indian society, culture and art. The universal appeal of the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari finds its due place in India with a set of innovative analyses and radical interpretations that reimagine India as a complex multiplicity. The volume brings together scholars from various disciplines and theoretical orientations to explore a wide range of issues in contemporary India, like dalit and caste studies, nationalism, gender question, art and cinema, and so on under the rubric of Deleuzo-Guattarian philosophy. This interdisciplinary book will be useful to scholars and researchers of philosophy, anthropology, cultural studies, sociology, postcolonial studies and South Asian studies.

Worker Centers

Worker Centers
Author: Janice Ruth Fine
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780801472572

As national policy is debated, a locally based grassroots movement is taking the initiative to assist millions of immigrants in the American workforce facing poor pay, bad working conditions, and few prospects to advance to better jobs. Fine takes a comprehensive look at the rising phenomenon of worker centers, fast-growing institutions that improve the lives of immigrant workers through service advocacy and organizing.—from publisher information.