Working Together : How Workplace Bonds Strengthen a Diverse Democracy
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At a time when communal ties in American society are increasingly frayed and segregation persists, the workplace is more than ever the site where Americans from different ethnic, religious, and racial backgrounds meet and forge serviceable and sometimes lasting bonds. What do these highly
structured workplace relationships mean for a society still divided by gender and race? The involuntariness of workplace interactions--prescribed by both external law and internal constraints--helps ensure that the often-troubled and often-failed project of racial integration succeeds at work.
People can be forced to get along--not without friction, but with surprising success.
This highly original exploration of the paradoxical nature--and the paramount importance--of workplace bonds concludes with concrete suggestions for how law can further realize the democratic possibilities of working together. In linking workplace integration and connectedness beyond work, Estlund
suggests a novel and promising strategy for addressing the most profound challenges facing American society.
Working Together : How Workplace Bonds Strengthen a Diverse Democracy ,Cynthia Estlund,Oxford University Press, USA,0195158296,Business & Economics,Business / Economics / Finance,Business/Economics,Industries - General,Management - General,Organizational Behavior,Business & Economics / Human Resources & Personnel Management,Civil rights & citizenship,Law | Employment & Labor Law,Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies,Multicultural studies,USA,Work & labour
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