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Equal Employment Versus Equal Opportunity: A Naked Political Agenda Covered by a Scientific Fig Leaf

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

James C. Sharf*
Affiliation:
Employment Risk Advisors, INC.
*
E-mail: jim@jimsharf.com, Address: Employment Risk Advisors, Inc., 211 N Union St, Ste 100, Alexandria, VA 22314

Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2011 

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