Equal Employment Opportunity: Labor Market Discrimination and Public Policy
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The struggle for equal employment opportunity has changed American law, influenced political campaigns, and affected the practices of virtually every business, labor union, and government agency in the country. It has led to intense and often bitter debates about fairness and raised fears of reverse discrimination. Its effects have spread to other countries around the world. 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 of EEO are scattered throughout professional journals in many fields and in a host of magazine articles and government reports, while many of the books on the subject are political arguments rather than attempts to present the issue in an objective way. This collection of writings is the only broad, interdisciplinary introduction to the struggle for EEO and its consequences. Equal Employment Opportunity: Labor Market Discrimination and Public Policy includes the work of major scholars in history, economics, sociology, politics, and law, presenting important debates about EEO law and its consequences, and putting the American situation into international context. No other collection brings together articles on theories of discrimination; competing theories about the likely impact of EEO laws; analyses of the laws' impact on women, blacks, and other minorities; and debates about affirmative action.
Introduction1Black Labor and the American Legal System: Race, Work, and the Law52Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women173Assimilation in the United States: An Analysis of Ethnic and Generational Differences in Status and Achievement274Twenty-Five Years Later: Where Do We Stand on Equal Employment Opportunity Law Enforcement?395Neoclassical Economists' Theories of Discrimination596Organizational Evidence of Ascription in Labor Markets717Equality and Efficiency: Antidiscrimination Policies in the Labor Market858Strangers in Paradise: Griggs v. Duke Power Co. and the Concept of Employment Discrimination1059Redefining Discrimination: 'Disparate Impact' and the Institutionalization of Affirmative Action12110Is Title VII Efficient?13711The Efficiency and Efficacy of Title VII14712Black Economic Progress After Myrdal15513Continuous Versus Episodic Change: The Impact of Civil Rights Policy on the Economic Status of Blacks18314Male-Female Wage Differentials and Policy Responses20715The Law Transmission System and the Southern Jurisprudence of Employment Discrimination23116Legal Ambiguity and Symbolic Structures: Organizational Mediation of Civil Rights Law24717Loading the Economy26118Businessmen Like to Hire by the Numbers26919Religious Pluralism, Equal Opportunity, and the State28120Getting Women Work That Isn't Women's Work: Challenging Gender Biases in the Workplace Under Title VII29721Racial Discrimination: 17 Years After the Act31522The Effects of Great Britain's Anti-Discrimination Legislation on Relative Pay and Employment32923Gender Stratification in Contemporary Urban Japan34924Japan's New Equal Employment Opportunity Law: Real Weapon or Heirloom Sword?35725The Changing Culture of Affirmative Action37326Trends in Whites' Explanations of the Black-White Gap in Socioeconomic Status, 1977-8939527Affirmative Action: Fair Shakers and Social Engineers40728Persuasion and Distrust: A Comment on the Affirmative Action Debate415Selected References429Index435
