In recent years, labor and civil rights groups have successfully pushed for local regulation raising the minimum wage, creating new parenting and sick leave policies, and broadening anti-discrimination protections to address sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination. This article examines the viability of this worker-protective regulation at the local level in the face of current legal and political challenges. In particular, it considers the rise of state preemption laws that overturn local ordinances, which is the product of anti-regulatory mobilization at the state legislative level. The article provides case studies of state preemption and offers potential legal arguments for challenging preemption and safeguarding labor and civil rights localism. The author concludes, however, that given the uncertainty of whether these legal arguments will prevail in court, civil rights and labor advocates will need to engage politics at the state level to preserve and expand local innovations.

近年来，劳工和民权组织已成功推动地方法规，提高最低工资，制定新的育儿和病假政策，并扩大反歧视保护措施，以解决性取向和性别认同歧视问题。面对当前的法律和政治挑战，本文探讨了这种在地方一级保护工人的法规的可行性。特别是，它考虑了推翻地方法令的州优先权法的兴起，这是州立法层面上反监管动员的产物。本文提供了关于国家优先购买权的案例研究，并为挑战优先购买权和维护劳工和民权地方主义提供了潜在的法律依据。作者得出结论，但是，