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The inertia of social structure: Affirmative action or seniority in layoffs?Footnote*

Pages 117-135 | Published online: 26 Aug 2010

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  • The research reported here was supported by a grant from the Taft Faculty Fund and initiated in response to an invitation from Mark LaGory, Kevin Fitzpatrick, and their colleagues to present a colloquium at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. I want to thank them and Jonathan Entin, John Goering, Arthur Hinman, and Edmund Kitch for helpful suggestions and encouragement Karen Fein‐berg, Norris Johnson, and an anonymous reviewer contributed in especially significant ways to this paper, a revision of one presented at the 1987 meetings of the Southern Sociological Society in Atlanta. I retain responsibility for any errors. Direct correspondence to William E. Feinberg, Department of Sociology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221–0378.

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