The gloves-off economy workplace standards at the bottom of America's labor market (Labor and Employment Relations Assoc., Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008)
Includes bibliographical references
An introduction to the "Gloves-off economy" / Annette Bernhardt, Heather Boushey, Laura Dresser, and Chris Tilly -- Working beyond the reach or grasp of employment law / Noah D. Zatz -- Putting wages back into competition : deunionization and degradation in place-bound industries / Ruth Milkman -- Day labor and workplace abuses in the residential construction industry : conditions in the Washington, DC, region / Nik Theodore, Edwin Meléndez, Abel Valenzuela Jr., and Ana Luz Gonzalez -- Cleaning and caring in the home : shared problems? shared possibilities? / Laura Dresser -- Working on the margins : migration and employment in the United States / Sarah Gammage -- Single mothers in the era of welfare reform / Elizabeth Lower-Basch and Mark H. Greenberg -- The new challenge of employment in the era of criminal background checks / Maurice Emsellem and Debbie A. Mukamal -- State and local policy models promoting immigrant worker justice / Amy Sugimori -- Fighting and winning in the outsourced economy : justice for janitors at the University of Miami / Stephen Lerner, Jill Hurst, and Glenn Adler -- New directions for the living wage movement / Paul K. Sonn and Stephanie Luce -- Mighty monolith or fractured federation? : business opposition and the enactment of workplace legislation / David Weil