The Legal Rights of Working People
by Michael Yates
[2]All in all, the chances are very high that we will all be victims of at least one of the hazards inherent in the working life. Are there ways in which we can lower the odds against us? This book details the legal rights of working people. It will explain your legal rights as workers and help you deal more effectively with the consequences of your employers' actions, or, better yet, help you prevent your employers from taking those actions in the first place.
Michael Yates is a professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh, a long-time labor activist and the author of "Labor Law Handbook" and "Longer Hours, Fewer Jobs"
Contents include
- Discrimination
- Organizing a Union: History Lessons
- Organizing a Union: The Current Law
- The Law of Collective Bargaining
- The Weapons of War
- The Democratic Rights of Union Members
- The Constitution
- At-Will Employment
- Health, Safety, Wages, and Hours
- Glossary of Labor Law Terms
- Researching Labor Law
- Useful Forms and Charts
What others are saying about Power on the Job
"Yates effectively weaves together historical cases to create a rich mosaic of the many complex, and even contradictory, elements of American labor law." Any activist will be less than fully armed without this book in his or her possession."
— Peter Rachleff, author
Hard-pressed in the Heartland: The Hormel Strike
and The Future of the Labor Movement
"Many employers hope to force us back to the days when it was a crime for workers to assemble, organize, or strike. Power on the Job will help us preserve, utilize, and expand the rights of workers have won in the past century of struggle."
— Jeremy Brecher, author
Strike! and
Global Pillage: Economic Reconstruction from the Bottom Up
"Practical advice for anyone who works...it will occupy a prominent place on my bookshelf."
— Howard Zinn, historian, author
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
South End Press, 318 pages