Discrimination and desegregation: Equal opportunity progress in U.S. private sector workplaces since the Civil Rights Act

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 609, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 49-84

  Tomaskovic Devey, Donald ^a   Stainback, Kevin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Inequality; Race; Segregation; Sex; Workplace

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845662792     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: 15523349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002716206294809     Document Type: Review

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