1st Edition
Equal Employment Opportunity Labor Market Discrimination and Public Policy
Edited By Paul Burstein
Copyright 1994
456 Pages
by
Routledge
444 Pages
by
Routledge
Although equal employment opportunity laws are often at the center of political debate, it has been difficult for students, teachers, and concerned citizens to learn about the controversy over EEO. Contributions to our understanding are scattered, this collection of writings is a broad interdisciplinary introduction to the struggle for EEO and its consequences. No other collection brings together... Read more
Introduction I. DISCRIMINATION AGAINST MINORITIES AND WOMEN: SOME HISTORICAL BACKGROUND 1 Black Labor and the American Legal System: Race, Work, and the Law 2 Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women 3 Assimilation in the United States: An Analysis of Ethnic and Generational Differences in Status and Achievement 4 Twenty-Five Years Later: Where Do We Stand on Equal Employment Opportunity Law Enforcement? II. THEORIES ABOUT DISCRIMINATION AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT 5 Neoclassical Economists' Theories of Discrimination 6 Organizational Evidence of Ascription in Labor Markets 7 Equality and Efficiency: Antidiscrimination Policies in the Labor Market ID. LEGAL DEFINITIONS OF DISCRIMINATION: CONTROVERSY AND CONFLICT 8 Strangers in Paradise: Griggs v. Duke Power Co. and the Concept of Employment Discrimination 9 Redefining Discrimination: 'Disparate Impact' and the Institutionalization of Affirmative Action United States Department of Justice Office of Legal Policy 121 IV. ECONOMIC AND ORGANIZATIONAL CONSEQUENCES OF EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY LAWS Theoretical Issues 10 Is Title VII Efficient? 11 The Efficiency and Efficacy of Title VII Richard A. Posner 14 7 Consequences for Workers 12 Black Economic Progress After Myrdal 13 Continuous Versus Episodic Change: The Impact of Civil Rights Policy on the Economic Status of Blacks 14 Male-Female Wage Differentials and Policy Responses 15 The Law Transmission System and the Southern Jurisprudence of Employment Discrimination 16 Legal Ambiguity and Symbolic Structures: Organizational Mediation of Civil Rights Law 17 Loading the Economy 18 Businessmen Like to Hire by the Numbers V. EEO IN A DIVERSE SOCIETY: DEALING WITH DIFFERENCES 19 Religious Pluralism, Equal Opportunity, and the State 20 Getting Women Work That Isn't Women's Work: Challenging Gender Biases in the Workplace Under Title VII VI. EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN OTHER COUNTRIES Great Britain 21 Racial Discrimination: 17 Years After the Act 22 The Effects of Great Britain's Anti-Discrimination Legislation on Relative Pay and Employment Japan 23 Gender Stratification in Contemporary Urban Japan 24 Japan's New Equal Employment Opportunity Law: Real Weapon or Heirloom Sword? VII. THE POLITICS OF EEO AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION 25 The Changing Culture of Affirmative Action 26 Trends in Whites' Explanations of the Black-White Gap in Socioeconomic Status, 1977-89 27 Affirmative Action: Fair Shakers and Social Engineers 28 Persuasion and Distrust: A Comment on the Affirmative Action Debate VIII. CONCLUSION Selected References, Index.
Biography
Paul Burstein is Professor of Sociology and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington, Seattle. His 15 years of research on equal employment opportunity and civil rights have been supported by the National Science Foundation and other organizations. He is the author of Discrimination, Jobs, and Politics (University of Chicago Press), and his articles have appeared in numerous journals.
