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Lactation at Work: Expressed Milk, Expressing Beliefs, and the Expressive Value of Law

Lactation at Work: Expressed Milk, Expressing Beliefs, and the Expressive Value of Law

Name: Lactation at Work: Expressed Milk, Expressing Beliefs, and the Expressive Value of Law
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781108488549
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Author: Elizabeth A. Hoffmann
ISBN: 9781108488549

By Elizabeth A. Hoffmann

Cambridge University Press July 2021

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ISBN-13: 9781108488549
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: July 2021
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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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.

1. Introduction

2. Lactation law as public policy

3. Expressed frustration: noncompliant, insufficient, and inconsistent accommodations

4. Milk and management: substantive compliance through managerialization

5. Allies already: supportive human resource specialists and supervising managers

6. Moralizing the law: listening in the shadow of the law and the transformation of supervising managers

7. Conclusion

Appendix A. State and federal lactation at work laws

Appendix B. Methodology and research strategy

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