Inventing equal opportunity
By: Frank Dobbin.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780691137438
Subjects: Discrimination in employment -- United States; Affirmative action programs -- United States; Diversity in the workplace -- United States; Sexual harassment of women -- United States; Civil rights -- United States; Personnel management -- United States
Description: 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].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.