Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428946225
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 53
Book Description
Worker protection Labor's efforts to enforce protections for day laborers could benefit from better data and guidance.
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428946225
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 53
Book Description
Worker Protection
Author: United States Government Accountability OfficePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781985006249
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Worker Protection: Labor's Efforts to Enforce Protections for Day Laborers Could Benefit from Better Data and Guidance
Worker Protection
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Day laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 53
Book Description
Day laborers are young men who work and are paid on a day-to-day basis by a variety of different employers. Often they are Hispanic with limited education and little English. This pamphlet reports that there is a good chance that these workers are being put to work in unsafe workplaces and suggests tracking and protecting them with more care.
Worker Protection
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Day laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Clearinghouse Review
Author: Multicultural Perspectives In Social Work Practice with Families
Author: Elaine Congress, DSW, MSWPublisher: Springer Publishing Company
ISBN: 082610830X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Multicultural Perspectives in Social Work Practice with Families is in its thirdedition and continues to expand the depth and breadth with which culturemay be understood and the impact of culture in working with families.Congress, Gonzalez, and their contributors have updated this text to includea focus on evidence-based practice, 10 additional chapters, revision of avaluable assessment tool, and a culturagram. This book clearly is an essentialresource for social workers committed to culturally sensitive practice."--Journal of Teaching in Social Work Encompassing the most current issues faced by multicultural families across the lifespan and the social workers who serve them, this popular textbook contains ten new chapters and provides content that has been significantly expanded throughout. These new and reconceived chapters offer professors and social work graduate students a broader and more comprehensive take on the key issues that arise when treating families from diverse cultural backgrounds and current, evidence-based models for assessment and treatment. New chapters include: Evidence-based models of care for ethnically-diverse families Practice with Asian-American families Practice with Native American and indigenous families Practice with Hispanic families Practice with Arab families Practice with adolescents Practice with families when there is risk of suicide Practice with families dealing with substance use and abuse Practice with families around health issues Legal issues with immigrants Contributors to the text are leaders in the field of multicultural issues that encompass a wide range of racial and ethnic populations. Updated case studies, vignettes, and statistical data illustrate the book's content.
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Author: An Equal Place
Author: Scott L. CummingsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190215933
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
An Equal Place is a monumental study of the role of lawyers in the movement to challenge economic inequality in one of America's most unequal cities: Los Angeles. Breaking with the traditional focus on national civil rights history, the book turns to the stories of contemporary lawyers, on the front lines and behind the scenes, who use law to reshape the meaning of low-wage work in the local economy. Covering a transformative period of L.A. history, from the 1992 riots to the 2008 recession, Scott Cummings presents an unflinching account of five pivotal campaigns in which lawyers ally with local movements to challenge the abuses of garment sweatshops, the criminalization of day labor, the gentrification of downtown retail, the incursion of Wal-Mart groceries, and the misclassification of port truck drivers. Through these campaigns, lawyers and activists define the city as a space for redefining work in vital industries transformed by deindustrialization, outsourcing, and immigration. Organizing arises outside of traditional labor law, powered by community-labor and racial justice groups using levers of local government to ultimately change the nature of labor law itself. Cummings shows that sophisticated legal strategy engaging yet extending beyond courts, in which lawyers are equal partners in social movements is an indispensable part of the effort to make L.A. a more equal place. Challenging accounts of lawyers' negative impact on movements, Cummings argues that the L.A. campaigns have achieved meaningful reform, while strengthening the position of workers in local politics, through legal innovation. Dissecting the reasons for failure alongside the conditions for success, this groundbreaking book illuminates the crucial role of lawyers in forging a new model of city-building for the twenty-first century.
Wage Theft in America
Author: Kim BoboPublisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1595588078
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
“This book will give you an entirely new perspective on work in America.” —Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed In what has been described as “the crime wave no one talks about,” billions of dollars’ worth of wages are stolen from millions of workers in the United States every year—a grand theft that exceeds every other larceny category. Even the Economic Policy Foundation, a business-funded think tank, has estimated that companies annually steal an incredible $19 billion in unpaid overtime. The scope of these abuses is staggering, but activists, unions, and policymakers—along with everyday Americans in congregations and towns across the country—have begun to take notice. While the first edition of Wage Theft In America documented the scope of the problem, this new edition adds the latest research on wage theft and tells what community, religious, and labor activists are now doing to address the crisis—from passing state and local wage-theft bills to establishing mayoral task forces and tapping agencies that help low-wage workers in spotting wage theft. Citing hard-hitting statistics and heartbreaking first-person accounts of exploitation at the hands of employers, this updated edition of Wage Theft In America offers concrete solutions and a roadmap for putting an end to this insidious practice.
Employment Arrangements: Improved Outreach Could Help Ensure Proper Worker Classification
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9781422309995
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description