Author: United States. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Equal Opportunity and Civil RightsPublisher:
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Category : Affirmative action programs
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Equal Opportunity Begins with You
Author: United States. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Equal Opportunity and Civil RightsPublisher:
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Category : Affirmative action programs
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Equal Opportunity Begins With You, July 28-30, 1999
Author: Inventing Equal Opportunity
Author: Frank DobbinPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400830893
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
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 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 1970s to eradicate bias by managers; how in the 1980s 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.
Equal Opportunity Begins with You
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Category : Affirmative action programs
Languages : en
Pages : 23
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Equal Opportunity Begins With You, July 28-30, 1999
Author: Equal Opportunity Begins with You
Author: United States. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Equal Opportunity and Civil RightsPublisher:
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Category : Affirmative action programs
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Equality of Opportunity
Author: John E. RoemerPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674042875
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
John Roemer points out that there are two views of equality of opportunity that are widely held today. The first, which he calls the nondiscrimination principle, states that in the competition for positions in society, individuals should be judged only on attributes relevant to the performance of the duties of the position in question. Attributes such as race or sex should not be taken into account. The second states that society should do what it can to level the playing field among persons who compete for positions, especially during their formative years, so that all those who have the relevant potential attributes can be considered. Common to both positions is that at some point the principle of equal opportunity holds individuals accountable for achievements of particular objectives, whether they be education, employment, health, or income. Roemer argues that there is consequently a "before" and an "after" in the notion of equality of opportunity: before the competition starts, opportunities must be equalized, by social intervention if need be; but after it begins, individuals are on their own. The different views of equal opportunity should be judged according to where they place the starting gate which separates "before" from "after." Roemer works out in a precise way how to determine the location of the starting gate in the different views.
How to Make Opportunity Equal
Author: Paul GombergPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 047069162X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This critical examination of racial equality takes a new approach to breaking down racial barriers by proposing a system of equal opportunity through shared labor and contributive justice. Focuses on how race and class inevitably structure vastly unequal life prospects Shows how human society can be organized in a way that does not socialize children for lives of routine labour Looks towards contribution, not distribution, as a way to promote racial equality Argues that by sharing routine and complex labor, social relationships would be transformed, eliminating competition for limited opportunities to develop and contribute abilities A discussion board for ideas and comments relating to the book can be found at: http://howtomakeopportunityequal.blogspot.com/
The Equal Opportunity Board and You
Author: Equal Opportunity BoardPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Equal Opportunity
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Category : Affirmative action programs
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description