Inventing Equal Opportunity:
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1. Verfasser: Dobbin, Frank (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton Princeton University Press 2009
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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 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
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ISBN:9781400830893
DOI:10.1515/9781400830893

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