State Regulation and the Workplace
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7078665 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Holly J Mccammon (0000-0003-1462-0860, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Publication date | 2007-02-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeoss252 |
| OpenAlex | W4241193329 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
Workplaces are highly regulated spaces. As Edelman and Suchman (1997) state, they “are immersed in a sea of law.” In regulating the workplace, the state attempts to control the behaviors of employers, managers, and workers using a system of incentives and penalties and a variety of policy tools. In the US, the government has at least some say – and often much say – over discrimination in the workplace, union activities, workplace safety, wage levels, hiring practices, work hours, employee leaves, plant closings, and compensation for injuries at work. The two main areas of workplace regulation in the US are employment law and labor law. Employment law encompasses anti‐discrimination law, affirmative action policy, and equal pay law. Labor law, on the other hand, regulates trade union organizing, collective bargaining between workers and employers, and strike action by workers. Both areas have received substantial attention by researchers in sociology as they try to make sense of the law's development over time and its impact on employment relations
Action (physics · Business · Collective bargaining · Compensation (psychology · Economics · Government (linguistics · Incentive · Labor relations · Labour economics · Labour law · Market economy · Political science · Right to work · State (computer science · Variety (cybernetics · Wage · Work (physics · Engineering · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · International Labor and Employment Law · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Industrial Relations
Gender and Racial Inequality at Work
Women and Men at Work
The State, Courts, and Equal Opportunities for Female CEOs in U.S. Organizations
American Labor Law
The Realities of Affirmative Action in Employment
The Social Organization of Work
Civil Rights Policies and the Achievement of Racial Economic Equality, 1948-1975
Equal Employment Opportunity Legislation and the Income of Women and Nonwhites
Government by Injunction
The Crisis of Liberal Democratic Capitalism
The Legal Environments of Organizations
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |