ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how the men at the coop cab company understood - and misunderstood - sexual harassment prohibitions. It describes how the labeling used by men at Coop Cab determined which women they sexually harassed and which they, instead, avoided. By examining legal consciousness in the workplace rather than in dispute-processing institutions such as courts or neighborhood mediators' offices, the chapter investigates perceptions of harm and blame without the biases possibly imposed by drawing from subjects already present in dispute-processing settings. It addresses two key workplace dynamics at a cooperative cab company. First, men at Coop Cab interacted more with women they labeled as heterosexual and tended to have less contact with women labeled as lesbian. Second, the interactions with heterosexual-labeled women often involved sexual harassment, while the lesbian-labeled women reported no harassment. The chapter explores men's behaviors and their labeling of female co-workers, not merely the women's perceptions of their male co-workers' actions.
