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Inventing equal opportunity

Frank Dobbin·2009·Choice Reviews Online
DOI 10.5860/choice.47-2093
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Acknowledgments ix CHAPTER 1: Regulating Discrimination The Paradox of a Weak State 1 CHAPTER 2: Washington Outlaws Discrimination with a Broad Brush 22 CHAPTER 3: The End of Jim Crow The Personnel Arsenal Put to New Purposes 41 CHAPTER 4: Washington Means Business Personnel Experts Fashion a System of Compliance 75 CHAPTER 5: Fighting Bias with Bureaucracy 101 CHAPTER 6: The Reagan Revolution and the Rise of Diversity Management 133 CHAPTER 7: The Feminization of HR and Work-Family Programs 161 CHAPTER 8: Sexual Harassment as Employment Discrimination 190 CHAPTER 9: How Personnel Defined Equal Opportunity 220 Notes 235 Bibliography 261 Index 289

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  • The consensus revolves around a set of employer policies and programs that are widespread among leading firms, inscribed in federal 'best practices' lists, and required by discrimination suit settlements.

    “That consensus revolves around a set of employer policies and programs that are widespread among leading firms (Dobbin, 2009), inscribed in federal 'best practices' lists (Kalev et al., 2006), and required by discrimination suit settlements negotiated by federal litigators and approved by federal judges (Schlanger and Kim, 2014).”

    From Are Diversity Programs Merely Ceremonial? Evidence-Free Institutionalization (2017) · cites this paper as Dobbin, 2009

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Authors
Dobbin, F.
Corresponding author
Frank Dobbin
Venue
Choice Reviews Online
Publisher
American Library Association
Published
2009-12-01
Volume
47
Issue
04
Pages
47-2093-47-2093
ISSN
  • 0009-4978 (ISSN-L)
  • 1523-8253
DOI
10.5860/choice.47-2093
OpenAlex
W1524636231
Cited by
356
References
0
Citations by year
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Type
book review
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Choice Reviews Online (publishedVersion)
  • Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) (submittedVersion)
  • University of Michigan Library Repository (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Law › Discrimination and Equality Law
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Race, History, and American Society
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender Diversity and Inequality
Keywords
equal opportunities, employment discrimination, personnel management, civil rights, Jim Crow, compliance, bureaucracy, diversity management, Reagan administration, human resource management, work-family programs, sexual harassment

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