Article: Affirmative action and business deregulation: on the Reagan administration's failure to revise Executive Order No. 11246. (Symposium on the American Presidency and Civil Rights)

Introduction

Occasionally, in the course of reading or conversation, one finds Executive Order No. 11246 referred to as "the affirmative action order." But this reflexive tendency to identify the order with affirmative action stems more from the U.S. Department of Labor's guidelines for implementing the order than from the text of the order itself. During the Ronald W. Reagan years, those Labor Department guidelines became the source of a major policy dispute within the executive administration. This paper explores the nature of the order, its implementation guidelines as developed over the years by the Department of Labor, the controversy surrounding a Reagan ...

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