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In Defense of Affirmative Action

In Defense of Affirmative Action Paperback - 1997

by Barbara Bergman

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Distinguished feminist and economist Barbara Bergmann acknowledges that affirmative action does indeed force employers to "play a quotas game". However, in a compelling study, Bergmann shows how 50 large corporations differ radically in how much integration they have achieved, and she presents abundant evidence that affirmative action, where systematically applied, has undone injustice and provided real economic benefit. Index.

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  • Title In Defense of Affirmative Action
  • Author Barbara Bergman
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
  • Date 1997-03-20
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ria9780465098347_pod
  • ISBN 9780465098347 / 0465098347
  • Weight 0.57 lbs (0.26 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.12 x 5.34 x 0.63 in (20.62 x 13.56 x 1.60 cm)
  • Reading level 1420
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95040201
  • Dewey Decimal Code 331.133

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First line

When Bill Clinton was campaigning for the presidency in 1992 as the candidate of the Democratic Party, he promised to appoint a cabinet that "looked like America."

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Citations

  • New York Times, 04/13/1997, Page 32

About the author

Barbara Bergmann is an economist at American University and author of The Economic Emergence of Women, 1986.

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