A penetrating critique of thirty years of antidiscrimination law in the United States, this book explains why equal opportunity and affirmative action policies have failed to improve black employment since the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Farrell Bloch reviews the effects of hiring policies on minority employment and analyzes recruitment practices to reveal why current United States laws fail to address some of the most important obstacles preventing minorities from getting jobs.
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Bloch is an economic and statistical consultant, based in Washington, D.C., who uses economic and statistical arguments to make a disturbing point: that employment of minorities, blacks in particular, has not improved in the 30 years since the Civil Rights Act of 1964; and he identifies the reasons. Further, he demonstrates that the intent of antidiscrimination legislation and regulation has been circumvented by adverse recruitment practices and notes that this should be of concern to policy makers and personnel professionals alike. Brad Hooper
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This review is from: Antidiscrimination Law and Minority Employment: Recruitment Practices and Regulatory Constraints (Hardcover)
I found this book while searching for a dissertation topic. The book is not limited to the points covered in the description given above. Most interesting for me were the author's chapters on recruitment and recruitment discrimination. He sets forth several hypotheses I've not encountered elsewhere. And these chapters as well as the rest of the book are very well-written (in English, not math!) and draw on the real-world human resources and legal environments.Not of much interest to me, but perhaps to others, are the discussions of the philosophical foundations for antidiscrimination regulation and affirmative action, and of the use of economics and statistics in employment discrimination lawsuits. Most of the discusion in the last chapter will be familiar to those who've taken a labor economics course. There is one cool unemployment remedy using interactive phones that would work even better on the internet.
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Rigorous and unbiased,
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This review is from: Antidiscrimination Law and Minority Employment: Recruitment Practices and Regulatory Constraints (Hardcover)
Unlike the politically biased journalists who dominate the controversial subjects of antidiscrimination regulation and affirmative action, Farrell Bloch hammers away with trenchant analysis, letting the conclusions fall where they may. If you want the rigor of an academic instead of a political manifesto, and are willing to challenge your preconceptions, this is the book for you.
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Despite almost thirty years of antidiscrimination and affirmative action regulation in the United States, the unemployment rate of blacks has remained twice that of whites. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
initial applicant evaluation, targeted recruitment methods, black availability, recruitment discrimination, minority job seekers, nonreporting firms, minority availability, availability benchmarks, federal antidiscrimination policy, black job seekers, antidiscrimination regulation, black hires, discrimination allegations, employment discrimination lawsuits, affirmative action regulation, hiring cases, employment discrimination litigation, spatial mismatch hypothesis, hiring discrimination, federal contractors, availability calculations, external labor market, temporary help agencies, discrimination paradigm, covered firms Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Civil Rights Act, United States, New York, Department of Labor, Jim Crow, Wards Cove, American Economic Review, American Indians, Bureau of the Census, Executive Order, University of Chicago Press, Department of Commerce, South Carolina, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Urban Labor Market, Wall Street Journal, Basic Books, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Duke Power, Economic Report of the President, Forbidden Grounds, Harvard University Press, Journal of Human Resources, Public Law New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Despite almost thirty years of antidiscrimination and affirmative action regulation in the United States, the unemployment rate of blacks has remained twice that of whites. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
initial applicant evaluation, targeted recruitment methods, black availability, recruitment discrimination, minority job seekers, nonreporting firms, minority availability, availability benchmarks, federal antidiscrimination policy, black job seekers, antidiscrimination regulation, black hires, discrimination allegations, employment discrimination lawsuits, affirmative action regulation, hiring cases, employment discrimination litigation, spatial mismatch hypothesis, hiring discrimination, federal contractors, availability calculations, external labor market, temporary help agencies, discrimination paradigm, covered firms Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Civil Rights Act, United States, New York, Department of Labor, Jim Crow, Wards Cove, American Economic Review, American Indians, Bureau of the Census, Executive Order, University of Chicago Press, Department of Commerce, South Carolina, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Urban Labor Market, Wall Street Journal, Basic Books, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Duke Power, Economic Report of the President, Forbidden Grounds, Harvard University Press, Journal of Human Resources, Public Law New!
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- Urban Labor Markets and Job Opportunity (Urban Opportunity) by George E. Peterson on 4 pages
- The Urban Underclass by Christopher Jencks on page 35, page 118, and page 125
- Workers and Wages in an Urban Labor Market (Studies in Business and Society Series) by Albert Rees on page 13, page 15, and page 26
- Employers Large and Small by Charles Brown on page 24, page 78, and page 99
- Rethinking Employment Policy by Felicity Skidmore on page 120, and page 122
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- The Public Librarian's Human Resources Handbook: Employer Rights and Responsibilities by David A. Baldwin on page 84
- The Affirmative Action Debate by Steven M. Cahn on page 222
- Effective Management of Student Employment: Organizing for Student Employment in Academic Libraries by David A. Baldwin on page 275
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