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This timely book paints a rich and fascinating history of corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts in the United States and France. Building on an impressive set of archives and interviews with diversity managers, Bereni shows how in both contexts firms took on these 'virtuous' goals. But she also explains how firms embraced distinct approaches in each country. Whereas US firms made sure to separate their diversity efforts from their legal obligations, French firms adopted a more blended model (mixing legal, business, and civic goals into one function). This comparative analysis sheds much-needed light on the limits of corporate incursions into moral realms and the contrasted future of DEI efforts across geographies. * Michel Anteby, Author of Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in Business Education * In Managing Corporate Virtue, Laure Bereni masterfully demonstrates the development and character of diversity policies in the U.S. and France, with each country's policies stemming from distinctive political-legal paradigms. Her comparative lens makes the book important reading for both countries' scholars and policymakers because it highlights the political-economic and social costs and benefits of an American anti-discrimination approach with race at the forefront, vs. a French redistributive approach centering on disability and gender. * Robin Stryker, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Purdue University * How do diversity practitioners legitimize their activity in institutional contexts where it can be stigmatized as peripheral or overly politicized? Why was the deracialization of DEI workplace initiatives more pronounced in France than in the United States ? How does the managerialization of antidiscrimination law operate in both countries ? To these questions - and many others - sociologist Laure Bereni's groundbreaking study offers compelling answers. Anyone interested in race in France vs in the United States or in the comparative analysis of affirmative action policies should read this outstanding book. * Daniel Sabbagh, Author of Equality and Transparency: A Strategic Perspective on Affirmative Action in American Law *

This timely book paints a rich and fascinating history of corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts in the United States and France. Building on an impressive set of archives and interviews with diversity managers, Bereni shows how in both contexts firms took on these 'virtuous' goals. But she also explains how firms embraced distinct approaches in each country. Whereas US firms made sure to separate their diversity efforts from their legal obligations, French firms adopted a more blended model (mixing legal, business, and civic goals into one function). This comparative analysis sheds much-needed light on the limits of corporate incursions into moral realms and the contrasted future of DEI efforts across geographies. * Michel Anteby, Author of Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in Business Education *

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Laure Bereni is a Research Professor in sociology at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and a faculty member of Centre Maurice Halbwachs at École Normale Supérieure in Paris. Her work lies at the intersection of political sociology, the sociology of gender and race, and the sociology of work and organizations, with a comparative perspective between the United States and France. Her current research focuses on corporate virtue workers and programs - from DEI to environmental sustainability - as part of a broader critical reflection on responsible capitalism.

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