Political Economy and Working Law

Robin Stryker

doi:10.1017/lsi.2019.53

Political Economy and Working Law

Robin Stryker

Sociology

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Lauren B. Edelman's Working Law: Courts, Corporations, and Symbolic Civil Rights (2016) offers an empirically supported theory of legal endogeneity, explaining how managerialized ideas of compliance with employment discrimination legislation diffuse in organizational fields and shape judicial doctrine. Managerialization and legal endogeneity explain how and why equality-promoting civil rights legislation may do little to reduce workplace inequalities. This essay places Edelman's theory within a broader terrain of opportunities and limits of law for promoting egalitarian change. Managerialization is not always detrimental to enhancing workplace race and gender equality. However, typically reinforcing logics of market capitalism and liberal legality often make it so, while blocking reforms countering judicial deference to managerialized compliance.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1231-1240
Number of pages	10
Journal	Law and Social Inquiry
Volume	44
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/lsi.2019.53
State	Published - Nov 1 2019

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Law

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