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"This book exposes how inequalities based on class and social background arise from employment practices in the digital age. It considers instances where social media is used in hiring to infiltrate private lives and hide job advertisements based on locality; where algorithms assess socio-economic data to filter candidates; where human interviewers are replaced by artificial intelligence with design that disadvantages users of classed language; and where already vulnerable groups become victims of digitalisation and remote work.

The author examines whether these practices create risks of discrimination based on certain protected attributes, including "social origin" in international labour law and laws in Australia and South Africa, "social condition" and "family status" in laws within Canada, and others. The book proposes essential law reform and improvements to workplace policy."

"Despite widely-reported ethnicity disparities in pay and occupational attainment, little is known about how different ethnic groups fare in job control—a crucial component of job quality with significant implications for well-being and health. Drawing on two large-scale representative datasets in the United Kingdom (1992–2022), we find that workers from all Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) groups conditionally report significantly lower job control than their White British counterparts, although heterogeneity exists depending on the BAME group in question. Ethnicity penalties are also most pronounced for foreign-born workers. Despite a slow trend towards convergence, ethnicity disparities have remained significant over the last three decades. We further show that disparities are largely unexplained by compositional factors such as pay and occupation, demonstrating ethnicity penalties in job control. By linking ethnicity to job control, this study contributes to the growing research on BAME workers in the labour market, as well as the literatures on job quality and multisegmented labour markets."

"Dans ce livre devenu un classique des luttes contre la prison et le système judiciaire aux Etats-Unis, Michelle Alexander revient dans des pages fulgurantes sur les mutations de la domination raciale et de l'enfermement. De l'esclavage aux innombrables prisons actuelles, en passant par la ségrégation de l'ère "Jim Crow", ce livre explore la façon dont en quelques décennies, avec la "guerre contre la drogue", les Noirs et les Latinos ont commencé à être enfermés en masse, jusqu'à dépasser aujourd'hui deux millions de prisonniers. Au quadrillage policier aux cellules, en passant par le profilage racial et une machine judiciaire implacable, l'auteure dévoile tous les mécanismes de cette nouvelle ségrégation qui a créé une nouvelle "sous-caste raciale", une "race des prisonniers"."

"Dans de nombreux pays d'Europe, l'expansion des emplois domestiques (aide aux personnes âgées, ménage) s'articule autour de la progression des migrations internationales. L'externalisation du travail gratuit, traditionnellement accompli par les femmes dans les familles, a créé un besoin d'emplois non qualifiés et flexibles, auquel répondent des travailleurs et travailleuses migrant.e.s. Ce livre examine les processus par lesquels ces emplois féminisés sont construits comme non qualifiés, au regard de l'articulation des rapports sociaux de sexe, de classe et du racisme. À travers l'analyse ethnographique des pratiques de recrutement, de placement et de formation professionnelle des employé.e.s domestiques migrant.e.s, il montre le rôle crucial du racisme dans les nouveaux arrangements de la division sexuelle du travail, dans deux sociétés aussi différentes à cet égard que la France et l'Italie. Un de ses apports originaux est d'éclaircir les mécanismes de la discrimination raciste dans l'aide à domicile en France, et leurs implications du point de vue de la professionnalisation de ces emplois."

"The present article examines the concept of effectiveness in relation to European legislation. Effectiveness is a concern associated with European legislation since the early days of the internal market and one that is assuming increasingly disconcerting dimensions. However, in its existing understanding, effectiveness is almost exclusively linked to transposition, implementation and enforcement of European legislation by the member states and is not seen as an indicator of legislative quality that pemeates the entire process of legislative design and drafting. This article maintains that the dynamic concept of legislative effectiveness is linked not only to the transposition and the implementation of legislation but primarily to choices of legislative design and drafting. The design and drafting of European legislation pose specific challenges to me capacity of legislation to achieve common minimum standards and results. These challenges are explored in detail by looking into the European Equality Directives (Directives 2000/78/EC and 2000/43/EC). This article concludes that effectiveness as a law making principle is not adequately reflected in the existing European law-making toolkit and a new approach is required that sets effectiveness at the ‘heart' of me law-making culture and process."