Fleury-Steiner, Benjamin and Laura Beth Nielsen, editors. The New Civil Rights Research: A Constitutive Approach. Dartmouth: Ashgate Press (2006)

Edelman, Lauren, Linda Krieger, Scott Eliason, Catherine Albiston, Virginia Mellema. “When Organizations Rule: Judicial Deference to Institutionalized Employment Structures,” American Journal of Sociology 117(3) 888-954 (2011).

Edelman, Lauren, and Mark Suchman. “The Legal Environments of Organizations,” Annu. Rev. Sociol.23:479–515 (1997).

Edelman, Lauren, Howard S. Erlanger, John Lande. “Internal Dispute Resolution: The Transformation of Civil Rights in the Workplace,” 27 Law & Society Review 497 (1993).

Marshall, Anna-Maria. Injustice Frames, Legality, and the Everyday Construction of Sexual Harassment. Law and Social Inquiry 28:659-689 (2003).

Marshall, Anna-Maria. Idle Rights- Employees Rights Consciousness and the Construction of Sexual Harassment Policies. Law and Society Review 39:83-124 (2005).

Quinn, Beth. The Paradox of Complaining- Law, Humor, and Harrassment in the Everyday Work World.  Law and Social Inquiry 25:1151-1185 (2000).

Examples of articles about what workplace practices matter and what happens within different work organizations:

Kalev, Alexandra, Frank Dobbin and Erin Kelly. “Best Practices or Best Guesses? Assessing the Efficacy of Corporate Affirmative Action and Diversity Policies.” American Sociological Review 71(4):589-617 (2006)

Kalev, Alexandra and Frank Dobbin. “Enforcement of Civil Rights Law in Private Workplaces: The Effects of Compliance Reviews and Lawsuits Over Time.” Law and Social Inquiry 31(4): 855-903 (2006).

Kelly, Erin L., and Alexandra Kalev. “Managing flexible work arrangements in US organizations: formalized discretion or ‘a right to ask’.” Socio-Economic Review 4:379-416 (2006)

Kelly, Erin L. “Failure to Update: An Institutional Perspective on Noncompliance with the Family & Medical Leave Act.” Law & Society Review. 44 (1): 33-66 (2010).

Malin, Martin. “Fathers and Parental Leave.” Texas Law Review 72:1047-1099 (1993-1994).

Malin, Martin. “Fathers and Parental Leave Revisited.” Northern Illinois University Law Review 19:25-56 (1998)

Rosenberg, Janet, Harry Perlstadt, & William R.F. Phillips. “Now That We Are Here- Discrimination, Disparagement, and Harrassment at Work and the Experience of Women Lawyers.”  7 Gender & Society 415 (1993)

Audit studies of who gets hired despite anti-discrimination laws

Correll, Shelley J,  Benard, Stephen, and Paik, In. “Getting a Job- Is There a Motherhood Penalty.” 112(5) Am. J. Sociol. 1297-1339 (2007)

Pager, Devah. “The Mark of a Criminal Record.” 108 American Journal of Sociology 937 (2003)

Effects of FMLA on the ground

Albiston, C:”Bargaining in the Shadow of Social Institutions: Competing Discourses and Social Change in Workplace Mobilization of Civil Rights. ” Law and Society Review 39(1): 11-50 (2005)

Wayne, J. H. and B. L. Cordeiro: “Who is a Good Organizational Citizen Social Perception of Male and Female Employees Who Use Family Leave. ” Sex Roles 49(5/6): 233-246 (2003)