Inventing Equal Opportunity /

Inventing Equal Opportunity / / Frank Dobbin.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Dobbin, Frank,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.) :; 54 line illus. 1 table.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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