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Politics & Society | 2010

Strengthening Labor Standards Enforcement through Partnerships with Workers’ Organizations

Janice Fine; Jennifer Gordon

Structures of employment in low-wage industries, a diminished wage and hour inspectorate, and an unworkable immigration regime have combined to create an environment where violations of basic workplace laws are everyday occurrences. This article identifies four “logics” of detection and enforcement, arguing that there is a mismatch between the enforcement strategies of most federal and state labor inspectorates and the industries in which noncompliance continues to be a problem. In response, the authors propose augmenting labor inspectorates by giving public interest groups like unions and worker centers a formal, ongoing role in enforcement in low-wage sectors. In three case studies, the authors present evidence of an emergent system—one that harkens back to a logic proposed by the drafters of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) but never implemented—of empowering those closest to the action to work in partnership with government.


California Law Review | 2011

The Lawyer is Not the Protagonist: Community Campaigns, Law, and Social Change

Jennifer Gordon

In the conventional narrative about the role of law in social change, lawyers are the protagonists. A social problem exists and a group or individual calls on a lawyer to do something about it. The lawyer explores various possibilities, decides on a course of action together with her client, and proceeds. The legal strategy either wins, in which case the story is a successful one, or loses, in which case it failed. In this concluding essay to the California Law Reviews symposium volume on Race, Economic Justice and Community Lawyering, I offer an alternative narrative, reflecting on the symposiums articles, which describe a series of recent campaigns for racial and economic justice undertaken by community organizations and coalitions. In these campaigns, attorneys appear as supporting players rather than main characters, seeking to help organizations build the capacity and the power to make change. Such lawyers draw their strategies from the usual legal toolbag: education about rights, litigation, engagement with regulatory processes involving various federal, state, and municipal agencies and entities, transactional and legislative work. But their core questions are different ones. They are not asking what legal levers can fix this problem, but how can legal levers put the group in a position to achieve its goals? Taken together, I argue, these stories suggest a promising vision for the role of lawyers in todays community-based battles for justice.


Archive | 2005

Suburban Sweatshops: The Fight for Immigrant Rights

Jennifer Gordon


S. Cal. L. Rev | 2006

Transnational Labor Citizenship

Jennifer Gordon


UCLA Law Review | 2010

Rethinking Work and Citizenship

Jennifer Gordon; R. A. Lenhardt


Fordham Law Review | 2007

CITIZENSHIP TALK: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN IMMIGRATION AND RACE PERSPECTIVES

Jennifer Gordon; R. A. Lenhardt


Archive | 2011

People Are Not Bananas: How Immigration Differs from Trade

Jennifer Gordon


Archive | 2009

Towards Transnational Labor Citizenship: Restructuring Labor Migration to Reinforce Workers Rights

Jennifer Gordon


Archive | 2009

Workers Without Borders

Jennifer Gordon


Archive | 2011

Free Movement and Equal Rights for Low-Wage Workers? What the United States Can Learn from the New EU Migration to Britain

Jennifer Gordon

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