Antidiscrimination Law and Minority Employment: Recruitment Practices and Regulatory Constraints

By Farrell E. Bloch

A penetrating critique of thirty years of antidiscrimination law in the United States, this book explains why equal opportunity and affirmative action policies have failed to improve black employment since the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Farrell Bloch reviews the effects of hiring policies on minority employment and analyzes recruitment practices to reveal why current United States laws fail to address some of the most important obstacles preventing minorities from getting jobs.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226059839
• ISBN13: 9780226059839
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Rigorous and unbiased

Unlike the politically biased journalists who dominate the controversial subjects of antidiscrimination regulation and affirmative action, Farrell Bloch hammers away with trenchant analysis, letting the conclusions fall where they may. If you want the rigor of an academic instead of a political manifesto, and are willing to challenge your preconceptions, this is the book for you.

Many interesting topics

I found this book while searching for a dissertation topic. The book is not limited to the points covered in the description given above. Most interesting for me were the author's chapters on recruitment and recruitment discrimination. He sets forth several hypotheses I've not encountered elsewhere. And these chapters as well as the rest of the book are very well-written (in English, not math!) and draw on the real-world human resources and legal environments. Not of much interest to me, but perhaps to others, are the discussions of the philosophical foundations for antidiscrimination regulation and affirmative action, and of the use of economics and statistics in employment discrimination lawsuits. Most of the discusion in the last chapter will be familiar to those who've taken a labor economics course. There is one cool unemployment remedy using interactive phones that would work even better on the internet.