Author: Frank Dobbin
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400830893
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
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.
Inventing Equal Opportunity
Author: Frank Dobbin
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400830893
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400830893
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
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.
Equal Opportunity Theory
Author: Dennis E. Mithaug
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 0761902627
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Equal Opportunity Theory is a clear and comprehensive examination of the idea of self-determination: both the right to self-determination as well as its expression in our society. Author Dennis E. Mithaug examines society's collective responsibility for assuring fair prospects of self-determination for all people. This inclusive volume also describes how social policies derived from the theory of equal opportunity actually impact those with the least likely prospects for self-determination throughout their lives - the poor, the disabled, and people of color.
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 0761902627
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Equal Opportunity Theory is a clear and comprehensive examination of the idea of self-determination: both the right to self-determination as well as its expression in our society. Author Dennis E. Mithaug examines society's collective responsibility for assuring fair prospects of self-determination for all people. This inclusive volume also describes how social policies derived from the theory of equal opportunity actually impact those with the least likely prospects for self-determination throughout their lives - the poor, the disabled, and people of color.
A Study of Equal Opportunity Practice in Undergraduate Engineering Courses
Author: Sophia Wanzagi Frisch
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Languages : en
Pages : 249
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Languages : en
Pages : 249
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Equal Opportunity
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Category : Affirmative action programs
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : Affirmative action programs
Languages : en
Pages :
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Equal Opportunity
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Category : Affirmative action programs
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Category : Affirmative action programs
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Hearings Before the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Utilization of Minority and Women Workers in Certain Major Industries
Author: United States. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
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Category : Discrimination in employment
Languages : en
Pages : 750
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Category : Discrimination in employment
Languages : en
Pages : 750
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City of Seattle Engineering Department
Author: Paul A. Wiatrak
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Category : Affirmative action programs
Languages : en
Pages : 1
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Category : Affirmative action programs
Languages : en
Pages : 1
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Equalizing Opportunities
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Category : Affirmative action programs
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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Category : Affirmative action programs
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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Equal Opportunity in Economic Downturn
Author: California. Legislature. Assembly. Select Committee on Equal Opportunity
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Category : Affirmative action programs
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Category : Affirmative action programs
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Equal Opportunity and Full Employment
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Equal Opportunities
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Category : Full employment policies
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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Category : Full employment policies
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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