Breaking Glass Ceilings, Ignoring Dirty Floors: The Culture and Class Bias of Diversity Management

American Behavioral Scientist

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 347-370

  Berrey, Ellen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

class inequality; diversity; workplace ethnography

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891859481     PISSN: 00027642     EISSN: 15523381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002764213503333     Document Type: Article

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