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UNINA9910791805503321 |
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Dobbin Frank |
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Inventing equal opportunity [[electronic resource] /] / Frank Dobbin |
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Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2009 |
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9786612259203 |
1-282-25920-2 |
1-4008-3089-3 |
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[Course Book] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (321 p.) |
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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 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. Regulating Discrimination -- 2. Washington Outlaws Discrimination with a Broad Brush -- 3. The End of Jim Crow -- 4. Washington Means Business -- 5. Fighting Bias with Bureaucracy -- 6. The Reagan Revolution and the Rise of Diversity Management -- 7. The Feminization of HR and Work-Family Programs -- 8. Sexual Harassment as Employment Discrimination -- 9. How Personnel Defined Equal Opportunity -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
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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 |
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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 1970's to eradicate bias by managers; how in the 1980's 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. |
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UNINA9910743382003321 |
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Autore |
Li Yi <1957-> |
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Alternatives in Development : Local Politics and NGOs in China and India / / by Liyiyu, Abhijit Dasgupta |
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Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022 |
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9789811646980 |
9811646988 |
9789811646973 |
981164697X |
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[1st ed. 2022.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (248 pages) |
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Asia - Politics and government |
Development economics |
Sustainability |
Asian Politics |
Development Economics |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Civil Society Organizations in China -- Chapter 3. Transformations of the Civil Society Organizations -- Chapter 4. Civil Society Organization and the State -- Chapter 5. Local Power Structure in an Indian Village -- Chapter 6. Civil Society Organizations in West Bengal -- Chapter 7. Comparative Perspectives -- Chapter 8. Conclusions. . |
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This book deals with the dynamics of local-level politics in China and India. China introduced new policies to restructure local politics in 1978. In place of communes, civil society organizations and cooperatives were introduced in villages. More changes came about with the introduction of the Organic Law of the Villagers' Committees of the People's Republic of China in 1998. The new local power structure includes state-sponsored institutions like Villagers Committees and the traditional civil society organizations (CSOs) and non-government organizations (NGOs). As in China, local politics in India undergoes considerable changes during the last few decades. Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) were reformed in 1992 with a constitutional amendment act. CSOs and NGOs were allowed to function. Against this background, the present book is undertaken with the objectives first, to present two different models of local politics and second, to compare the two, finally to focus on the two different models of development. This book will interest scholars of rural governance, rural transformation, and the role of the grassroots CSOs and NGOs in shaping development program and growth in the two large countries in Asia. Liyiyu is Professor of Public Administration and currently Director, Comparative Research Centre, School of Law and Politics, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, China. She has published several books and articles including Rural Civil Society and Rural Development in China: Case Studies (2006), A Comparative Study on Chinese Traditional Administrative Culture Models (2010), and A Comparative Study of Social Governance in China and India (2016). Abhijit Dasgupta formerly a Professor of Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. He has published several papers on agrarian relations in West Bengal and Bangladesh, population displacement, and affirmative action with reference to the minorities in South Asia. He is Author of Growth with Equity: the New Technology and Agrarian Change in Bengal (1998); Displacement and Exile: The State-Refugee Relations in India (2016) and Co-editor of the following books: Minorities and the State: Changing Social and Political Landscape of Bengal (2011) and Family and Kinship among Muslims in Bengal (2021). |
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