Dobbin Inventing Equal Opportunity

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ISBN: 978-1-4008-3089-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 360 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Dobbin, Frank

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Personalwesen, Human Resource Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmenskultur, Corporate Governance
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Frank Dobbin is professor of sociology at Harvard University. His books include Forging Industrial Policy: The United States, Britain, and France in the Railway Age; The New Economic Sociology: A Reader (Princeton); and The Global Diffusion of Markets and Democracy.