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Discrimination In Online Employment Recruiting Symposium: Law, Technology, And The Organization Of Work, Pauline T. Kim, Sharion Scott
Discrimination In Online Employment Recruiting Symposium: Law, Technology, And The Organization Of Work, Pauline T. Kim, Sharion Scott
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Employment recruitment is increasingly moving online as employers use Facebook and other social media platforms to advertise job opportunities. This shift to online advertising allows employers to more precisely target workers likely to apply, but also raises concerns about unfair exclusion. This essay explains the mechanisms though which online recruiting can produce discriminatory effects and examines the question of when employers will be liable under existing employment discrimination laws. Both Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act contain little-noticed provisions that specifically forbid discriminatory advertising, in addition to their general prohibitions …
Bankrupted Slaves, Rafael I. Pardo
Bankrupted Slaves, Rafael I. Pardo
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Responsible societies reckon with the pernicious and ugly chapters in their histories. Wherever we look, there exist ever-present reminders of how we failed as a society in permitting the enslavement of millions of black men, women, and children during the first century of this nation’s history. No corner of society remains unstained. As such, it is incumbent on institutions to confront their involvement in this horrific past to fully comprehend the kaleidoscopic nature of institutional complicity in legitimating and entrenching slavery. Only by doing so can we properly continue the march of progress, finding ways to improve society, not letting …
Documenting Bankrupted Slaves, Rafael I. Pardo
Documenting Bankrupted Slaves, Rafael I. Pardo
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Bankrupted Slaves tells a story about institutional complicity in antebellum slavery — that is, the story of how the federal government in the 1840s and 1850s became the owner and seller of thousands of slaves belonging to financially distressed slaveowners who sought forgiveness of debt through the federal bankruptcy process. Relying on archival court records that have not been systematically analyzed by other scholars, Bankrupted Slaves analyzes how the Bankruptcy Act of 1841 and the domestic slave trade inevitably collided to create the bankruptcy slave trade, focusing the analysis through a case study of the Eastern District of Louisiana, which …