Inventing Equal Opportunity / / Frank Dobbin.
Equal opportunity in the workplace is thought to be the direct legacy of the civil rights and feminist movements and the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. Yet, as Frank Dobbin demonstrates, corporate personnel experts--not Congress or the courts--were the ones who determined what equal opportunity...
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Dobbin, Frank, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Inventing Equal Opportunity / Frank Dobbin. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2009] ©2009 1 online resource (360 p.) : 54 line illus. 1 table. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. Regulating Discrimination -- 2. Washington Outlaws Discrimination with a Broad Brush -- 3. The End of Jim Crow -- 4. Washington Means Business -- 5. Fighting Bias with Bureaucracy -- 6. The Reagan Revolution and the Rise of Diversity Management -- 7. The Feminization of HR and Work-Family Programs -- 8. Sexual Harassment as Employment Discrimination -- 9. How Personnel Defined Equal Opportunity -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Equal opportunity in the workplace is thought to be the direct legacy of the civil rights and feminist movements and the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. Yet, as Frank Dobbin demonstrates, corporate personnel experts--not Congress or the courts--were the ones who 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, in the American imagination. Dobbin shows how Congress and the courts merely endorsed programs devised by corporate personnel. He traces how the first measures were adopted by military contractors worried that the Kennedy administration would cancel their contracts if they didn't take "affirmative action" to end discrimination. These measures built on existing personnel programs, many designed to prevent bias against unionists. Dobbin follows the changes in the law as personnel experts invented one wave after another of equal opportunity programs. He examines how corporate personnel formalized hiring and promotion practices in the 1970s to eradicate bias by managers; how in the 1980s they answered Ronald Reagan's threat to end affirmative action by recasting their efforts as diversity-management programs; and how the growing presence of women in the newly named human resources profession has contributed to a focus on sexual harassment and work/life issues. Inventing Equal Opportunity reveals how the personnel profession devised--and ultimately transformed--our understanding of discrimination. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 print 9780691149950 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400830893 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400830893 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400830893.jpg |
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