Inventing equal opportunity
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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Princeton, N.J
Princeton University Press
2009
Princeton Univ. Press |
| Edition: | 1 |
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| ISBN: | 9781400830893, 069114995X, 9780691149950, 1400830893, 9780691137438, 0691137439 |
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Table of Contents:
- Inventing equal opportunity -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- One: Regulating Discrimination: The Paradox of a Weak State -- Two: Washington Outlaws Discrimination with a Broad Brush -- Three: The End of Jim Crow: The Personnel Arsenal Put to New Purposes -- Four: Washington Means Business: Personnel Experts Fashion a System of Compliance -- Five: Fighting Bias with Bureaucracy -- Six: The Reagan Revolution and the Rise of Diversity Management -- Seven: The Feminization of HR and Work-Family Programs -- Eight: Sexual Harassment as Employment Discrimination -- Nine: How Personnel Defined Equal Opportunity -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
- Front Matter Table of Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ONE: REGULATING DISCRIMINATION TWO: WASHINGTON OUTLAWS DISCRIMINATION WITH A BROAD BRUSH THREE: THE END OF JIM CROW FOUR: WASHINGTON MEANS BUSINESS FIVE: FIGHTING BIAS WITH BUREAUCRACY SIX: THE REAGAN REVOLUTION AND THE RISE OF DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SEVEN: THE FEMINIZATION OF HR AND WORK-FAMILY PROGRAMS EIGHT: SEXUAL HARASSMENT AS EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION NINE: HOW PERSONNEL DEFINED EQUAL OPPORTUNITY NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
- Cover Frontmatter Contents Acknowledgments 1. Regulating Discrimination: The Paradox of a Weak State 2. Washington Outlaws Discrimination with a Broad Brush 3. The End of Jim Crow: The Personnel Arsenal Put to New Purposes 4. Washington Means Business: Personnel Experts Fashion a System of Compliance 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
- Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Regulating Discrimination: The Paradox of a Weak State -- 2 Washington Outlaws Discrimination with a Broad Brush -- 3 The End of Jim Crow: The Personnel Arsenal Put to New Purposes -- 4 Washington Means Business: Personnel Experts Fashion a System of Compliance -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y
- 2. Washington Outlaws Discrimination with a Broad Brush
- 5. Fighting Bias with Bureaucracy
- 3. The End of Jim Crow
- 1. Regulating Discrimination
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- CONTENTS
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- 9. How Personnel Defined Equal Opportunity
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- 7. The Feminization of HR and Work-Family Programs
- 8. Sexual Harassment as Employment Discrimination
- Frontmatter --
- 4. Washington Means Business
- INDEX
- 6. The Reagan Revolution and the Rise of Diversity Management