The Strength of a Weak State: The Rights Revolution and the Rise of Human Resources Management Divisions

1998/09/01 by Frank Dobbin, John R. Sutton · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Health Professions · #Labor Movements and Unions #Social Policy and Reform Studies #Employment and Welfare Studies

paper · doi:10.1086/210044

Abstract

Since the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, federal policy has revolutionized employment rights.

Citations

• Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony
• Legal Ambiguity and Symbolic Structures: Organizational Mediation of Civil Rights Law

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• The Assemblage and Dismantling of Access Barriers in Administrative Bureaucracies: Constructing the Problem of Diversity in the German Welfare State. [europepmc]

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