Title:
Class action : the landmark case that changed sexual harassment law / Clara Bingham & Laura Leedy Gansler.
ISBN:
9780385496131
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Edition:
First Anchor books edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Anchor Books, 2003.
©2002
Physical Description:
x, 390 pages ; 21 cm
General Note:
Originally published in hardcover by Doubleday in 2002.
Contents:
pt. 1. Close to the land, far from the law, 1975-1987 -- ch. 1. Mine : March 1975 -- ch. 2. Range : Summer 1975 -- ch. 3. Hostilities : Fall 1975 -- ch. 4. No name for it : 1980 -- ch. 5. Letters : December 1981 -- ch. 6. State : Winter 1987 -- pt. 2. Rough justice, 1988-1995 -- ch. 7. Civil action : Winter 1988 -- ch. 8. Petition : August 1988 -- ch. 9. Men under oath : Spring 1989 -- ch. 10. Certification : Spring 1991 -- ch. 11. Victories : December 16, 1991 -- ch. 12. Liability : December 1992 -- ch. 13. Discovery : May 14, 1993 -- ch. 14. Cross : January 1995 -- ch. 15. Stand : February 1995 -- pt. 3. Verdicts, 1996-1998 -- ch. 16. Ruling : November 1995 -- ch. 17. Settling : December 30, 1998 -- Epilogue.
Summary:
In the tradition of A Civil Action and Erin Brockovitch, Class Action is a story of intrigue and injustice as dramatic as fiction but all the more poignant because it is true. In the coldest reaches of northern Minnesota, a group of women endured a shocking degree of sexual harassment-until one of them stepped forward and sued the company that had turned a blind eye to their pleas for help. Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, the first sexual harassment class action in America, permanently.
Changed the legal landscape as well as the lives of the women who fought the battle. In 1975, Lois Jenson, a single mother on welfare, heard that the local iron mine was now hiring women. The hours were grueling, but the pay was astonishing, and Jenson didn't think twice before accepting a job cleaning viscous soot from enormous grinding machines. What she hadn't considered was that she was now entering a male-dominated, hard-drinking society that firmly believed that women belonged at.
Home-a sentiment quickly born out in the relentless, brutal harassment of every woman who worked at the mine. When a group of men whistled at her walking into the plant, she didn't think much of it; when they began yelling obscenities at her, she was resilient; when one of them began stalking her, she got mad; when the mining company was unwilling to come to her defense, she got even. From Jenson's first day on the job, through three intensely humiliating trials, to the emotional day of.
The settlement, it would take Jenson twenty-five years and most of her physical and mental health to fight the battle with the mining company. But with the support of other women miners like union official Patricia Kosmach and her luck at finding perhaps the finest legal team for class action law, Jenson would eventually prevail. Clara Bingham and Laura Leedy Gansler take readers on a fascinating, page-turning journey, the roller-coaster ride that became Jenson vs. Eveleth and show us.
That Class Action is not just one woman's story, it's every woman's legacy.
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OCLC Number:
ocm53969370
Availability:
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