Karin Williamson Pedrick, Sandra Arnold Scham

Inside Affirmative Action (eBook, PDF)

The Executive Order That Transformed America's Workforce

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Despite the fact that any President who didn't support it could have abolished it, affirmative action is still a reality of the American workplace. With the support of less than half of the public over many decades, how is it that such a controversial program has managed to survive? Inside Affirmative Action addresses this question.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351751070
• Artikelnr.: 55411839

Autorenporträt

Karin Williamson Pedrick has broad experience enforcing federal laws and regulations at the U.S. Department of Labor and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Her career includes 35 years at the Department of Labor - 7 years working at the Employment and Training Administration in the Labor Certification Program, 4 years at the Wage and Hour Division enforcing the Equal Pay Act and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act; 24 years at the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs enforcing several discrimination laws and Executive Order 11246, which prohibits employment discrimination and requires contractors to take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity; and 7 years at EEOC where she was the Executive Assistant to the Chair for five years and Deputy Director of the Office of Communications and Legislative Affairs for 2 years. EEOC enforces several federal employment discrimination laws including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Ms. Pedrick has a bachelor of arts degree in Political Science from the George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

Sandra Arnold Scham is a consultant to the United States Department of State and the United States Agency for International Development on social science research and counter extremism. Before pursuing her PhD, she worked for the government in the field of equal employment opportunity and labor law for twenty-five years. She is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Anthropology Department of the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC and has held research, teaching and editorial posts at Stanford University, Pennsylvania State University and the University of Maryland. She is the co-editor of an academic journal and has been an editor and contributing editor for two other academic journals. She is widely published in the fields of anthropology, cultural heritage and international development.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Who, What and When Part 1: Inside and Outside Affirmative Action
1. Our Stories: Two Civil Servants and Ten Administrations 2. The Debate
Outside Affirmative Action Part 2: The Making of Affirmative Action 3.
Freedom is Not Enough: John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson 4. Changes
in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes: Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Jimmy
Carter 5. On Account of Sex: Afterthought or Stealth Bomb? Part 3:
Hesitation and Second Thoughts 6. Jelly Bellies and Indecision: Ronald
Reagan's First Term 7. In Pursuit of a Colorblind Society: Reagan's Second
Term 8. Legislation is Not Enough: George H.W. Bush Part 4: Four Presidents
and the Legacy of a Program 9. The First Black President? Bill Clinton 10.
Affirmative Access, Deregulation and 9/11: The Catastrophic Event that
Changed America's Psyche and the Path Forward: George W. Bush 11. From
Seneca Falls to Selma to Stonewall: Barack Obama 12. Diversity in a Time of
Division: Donald Trump Afterword: What Hath LBJ Wrought?