Rediscovering the Color Line within Work Organizations: The 'Knitting of Racial Groups' Revisited

Work and Occupations

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 379-400

  Vallas, Steven P ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Equal employment opportunity; Race; Racial discrimination; Work

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142215260     PISSN: 07308884     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0730888403256454     Document Type: Review

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