Institutional Inequality and the Mobilization of the Family and Medical Leave Act: Rights on Leave
Institutional Inequality and the Mobilization of the Family and Medical Leave Act: Rights on Leave
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制度不平等与家庭和病假动员法：休假权利
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2010
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C. Albiston
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C. Albiston
《家庭和医疗假法》的权利在法院和工作场所的实践中如何运作？这项实证研究探讨了制度和社会实践如何改变这些权利的含义，重新创造不平等。围绕家庭工资理想建立的工作场所规则和规范，残疾和工作相互排斥的假设，以及管理层对时间的历史控制，都限制了社会变革的机会。然而，工人也可以将权利作为一种文化话语来调动，以改变家庭假和病假的社会意义。本研究利用社会建构主义和新制度主义的理论框架，解释了制度如何改变权利，重新创造权力和不平等的制度，但同时也为法律改变社会结构提供了机会。它通过研究机构如何塑造权利动员的过程，为关于法律和社会变革的常年辩论提供了一个新的视角。
How do Family and Medical Leave Act rights operate in practice in the courts and in the workplace? This empirical study examines how institutions and social practices transform the meaning of these rights to recreate inequality. Workplace rules and norms built around the family wage ideal, the assumption that disability and work are mutually exclusive, and management's historical control over time all constrain opportunities for social change. Yet workers can also mobilize rights as a cultural discourse to change the social meaning of family and medical leave. Drawing on theoretical frameworks from social constructivism and new institutionalism, this study explains how institutions transform rights to recreate systems of power and inequality but at the same time also provide opportunities for law to change social structure. It provides a fresh look at the perennial debate about law and social change by examining how institutions shape the process of rights mobilization.