Lactation at Work: Expressed Milk, Expressing Beliefs, and the Expressive Value of Law (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society) - Softcover

Elizabeth A. Hoffmann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108726496 ISBN 13: 9781108726498

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2022

Synopsis

In recent decades, as women entered the US workforce in increasing numbers, they faced the conundrum of how to maintain breastfeeding and hold down full-time jobs. In 2010, the Lactation at Work Law (an amendment to the US Fair Labor Standards Act) mandated accommodations for lactating women. This book examines the federal law and its state-level equivalent in Indiana, drawing on two waves of interviews with human resource personnel, supervising managers, and lactating workers. In many ways, this simple law - requiring break time and privacy for pumping - is a success story. Through advocacy by allies, education of managers, and employee initiative, many organizations created compliant accommodations. This book shows legal scholars how a successful civil rights law creates effective change; helps labor activists and management personnel understand how to approach new accommodations; and enables workers to understand the possibilities for amelioration of workplace problems through internal negotiations and legal reforms.

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About the Author

Elizabeth A. Hoffmann is Associate Professor of Sociology and Law & Society at Purdue University. Hoffmann studies how people's legal consciousness and organizational location shape their experience of the law in the workplace. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and has won awards from the Labor and Employment Research Association, the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, and the American Bar Foundation.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108726496
• ISBN 13: 9781108726498
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256