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Employment equity in Canada : the legacy of the Abella report /

In the mid-1980s, the Abella Commission on Equality in Employment and the federal Employment Equity Act made Canada a policy leader in addressing systemic discrimination in the workplace. More than twenty-five years later, Employment Equity in Canada assembles a distinguished group of experts to exa...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Agócs, Carol (Autor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2014]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : perspectives on Employment Equity in Canada / Carol Agocs
  • 1. The making of the Abella Report : reflections on the 30th anniversary of the Report of the Federal Royal Commission on Equality in Employment / Carol Agocs
  • 2. Employment Equity in Canada : what do the data show about its effectiveness? / Nan Weiner
  • 3. Real change? Reflections on Employment Equity's last thirty years / Raj Anand
  • 4. Women, intersectionality and Employment Equity / Kim England
  • 5. Employment Equity and Canada's Aboriginal peoples / Michael Lynk
  • 6. Employment Equity and disability : moving forward to achieve employment integration and fulfill promises of inclusion and participation / Marcia Rioux and Lora Patton
  • 7. The equity landscape for sexual minorities in Canada / Gerald Hunt, David Rayside and Donn Short
  • 8. Remedying the experiences of vulnerable workers : links with Employment Equity / Patricia Hughes
  • 9. Employment Equity in the federal public service : a union perspective / Allison Pilon
  • 10. Securing Employment Equity by enforcing human rights laws / Mary Cornish, Fay Faraday and Jan Borowy
  • 11. The Employment equity mandate of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities : some preliminary observations for Canada / Michael Ashley Stein
  • 12. New narratives, same old problems : the risk of diversity-centered workplace decision making in a "post-racial" America / Natasha Martin
  • 13. Employment Equity : the next thirty years / Brian Burkett
  • Conclusion : looking forward : the unfinished business of Employment Equity / Carol Agocs.