Racism and Recruitment: Managers, Organisations and Equal Opportunity in the Labour Market

by Richard Jenkins

Book Overview

This book, first published in 1986, focuses upon the processes whereby black workers were systematically disadvantaged in the recruitment and selection process. Based on research into forty organisations in the public, manufacturing and retailing sectors in Britain, the book argues that straightforward, racist, direct discrimination was still a major problem during the mid-1980s. In addition the book identifies a range of more subtle processes, involving...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521125766
• ISBN13: 9780521125765
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"