Forbidden Grounds: The Case Against Employment Discrimination LawsHarvard University Press, 1995 - 530 páginas This controversial book presents a powerful argument for the repeal of anti-discrimination laws within the workplace. These laws--frequently justified as a means to protect individuals from race, sex, age, and disability discrimination--have been widely accepted by liberals and conservatives alike since the passing of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and are today deeply ingrained in our legal culture. Richard Epstein demonstrates that these laws set one group against another, impose limits on freedom of choice, undermine standards of merit and achievement, unleash bureaucratic excesses, mandate inefficient employment practices, and cause far more invidious discrimination than they prevent. Epstein urges a return to the common law principles of individual autonomy that permit all persons to improve their position through trade, contract, and bargain, free of government constraint. He advances both theoretical and empirical arguments to show that competitive markets outperform the current system of centralized control over labor markets. Forbidden Grounds has a broad philosophical, economic, and historical sweep. Epstein offers novel explanations for the rational use of discrimination, and he tests his theory against a historical backdrop that runs from the early Supreme Court decisions, such as Plessy v. Ferguson which legitimated Jim Crow, through the current controversies over race-norming and the 1991 Civil Rights Act. His discussion of sex discrimination contains a detailed examination of the laws on occupational qualifications, pensions, pregnancy, and sexual harassment. He also explains how the case for affirmative action is strengthened by the repeal of employment discrimination laws. He concludes the book by looking at the recent controversies regarding age and disability discrimination. Forbidden Grounds will capture the attention of lawyers, social scientists, policymakers, and employers, as well as all persons interested in the administration of this major |
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Contenido
Consensus and Its Perils | 1 |
Force Discrimination and Free Entry | 28 |
Rational Discrimination in Competitive Markets | 59 |
The Case of Monopoly | 79 |
1890 to 1937 | 91 |
15 | 97 |
59 | 107 |
From the 1937 Revolution to the 1964 Civil Rights | 116 |
Bona Fide Occupational Qualifications | 283 |
Pensions | 313 |
Pregnancy | 329 |
Sexual Harassment | 350 |
Empirical Evidence of Disparate Impact | 367 |
Protected Groups Under Title VII | 395 |
First Principles | 412 |
Age Discrimination | 441 |
Constitutional Challenges to the 1964 Civil Rights | 130 |
The Contract at Will | 147 |
Disparate Treatment | 159 |
From Disparate Treatment to Disparate Impact | 182 |
Disparate Impact | 205 |
The Effects of Title VII | 242 |
Separate but Equal | 269 |
Disability Discrimination | 480 |
Symbols and Substance | 495 |
Appendix of Statutory Excerpts | 507 |
Table of Cases | 519 |
527 | |
Chapitre XII | 333 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Forbidden Grounds: The Case Against Employment Discrimination Laws Richard Allen Epstein Vista de fragmentos - 1992 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Public and Private in Thought and Practice: Perspectives on a Grand Dichotomy Jeff Weintraub,Krishan Kumar Vista previa limitada - 1997 |
Ideology and Political Choice: The Search for Freedom, Justice, and Virtue Vernon Van Dyke Vista de fragmentos - 1995 |