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Author Dobbin, Frank.

Title Inventing equal opportunity / Frank Dobbin.

Imprint Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2009.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  331.133 D651i 2009    ---  Available
1 copy being processed for Axe Acquisitions Order.
Description x, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Summary The author demonstrates how corporate personnel experts, not Congress or the courts, determined what equal opportunity meant in practice, designing changes in how employers hire, promote, and fire workers, and ultimately defining what discrimination is, and is not. He shows how Congress and the courts merely endorsed programs devised by corporate personnel.--[book jacket].
Contents Regulating discrimination: the paradox of a weak state -- Washington outlaws discrimination with a broad brush -- The end of Jim Crow: the personnel arsenal put to new purposes -- Washington means business: personnel experts fashion a system of compliance -- Fighting bias with bureaucracy -- The Reagan revolution and the rise of diversity management -- The feminization of HR and work-family programs -- Sexual harassment as employment discrimination -- How personnel defined equal opportunity.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Discrimination in employment -- United States.
Affirmative action programs -- United States.
Diversity in the workplace -- United States.
Sexual harassment of women -- United States.
Civil rights -- United States.
Personnel management -- United States.
Affirmative action programs. (OCoLC)fst00798899
Civil rights. (OCoLC)fst00862627
Discrimination in employment. (OCoLC)fst00895050
Diversity in the workplace. (OCoLC)fst00895719
Personnel management. (OCoLC)fst01058797
Sexual harassment of women. (OCoLC)fst01114883
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
ISBN 9780691137438 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0691137439 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780691149950 (pbk.)
069114995X (pbk.)

 
    
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