AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AT WORK
Affirmative Action at Work: Law, Politics and Ethics
(University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991). Affirmative Action at Work used theoretical and applied social science to analyze affirmative action and anti-discrimination laws, policies, and practices, through an empirical study of its impacts the attitudes of workers in the California Department of Parks and Recreation. In 2009 the University of Pittsburg Press selected this book to be one of its first included in its Digital Research Library, which made it available online at no cost.
The study evaluated the works of social scientists, philosophers, and legal theorists about the moral and legal principles undergirding affirmative action and anti-discrimination laws. It drew on participant observation, in-depth interviewing, and original survey research based on theory that was developed during the qualitative phase of the research. It presented a comprehensive picture of the cross-pressures - the racial fears and antagonisms, the moral, ethical, and religious views about fairness and opportunity, and the rigid ideas - that guide popular attitudes. Its conclusions provided the first empirical evidence contrary to claims that such laws and policies negatively stigmatize and increase hostility toward those that they intend to help.
First editions of the this book are available directly from Bron Taylor