TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dobbin,Frank
TI  - Inventing equal opportunity
SN  - 9780691137438 (hardcover : alk. paper)
AV  - HD 4903.5.U58 D63 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Princeton, N.J.
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Discrimination in employment
KW  - United States
KW  - Affirmative action programs
KW  - Diversity in the workplace
KW  - Sexual harassment of women
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - Personnel management
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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]
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0827/2008039007.html
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