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Racial integration in corporate America, 1940-1990 /
In the space of about thirty years, from 1964 to 1994, American corporations abandoned racially exclusionary employment policies and embraced some form of affirmative action to diversify their workforces. It was an extraordinary transformation, which most historians attribute to civil rights activis...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge [U.K.] ; New York, N.Y. :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In the space of about thirty years, from 1964 to 1994, American corporations abandoned racially exclusionary employment policies and embraced some form of affirmative action to diversify their workforces. It was an extraordinary transformation, which most historians attribute to civil rights activists, federal legislation, and labor unions. This is the first book to examine the role of corporations in that transformation. Whereas others emphasize corporate obstruction, this book argues that there were corporate executives and managers who promoted fair employment and equal employment opportunity long before the federal government required it, and who thereby helped prepare the corporate world for racial integration. The book examines the pioneering corporations that experimented with integration in the 1940s and 1950s, as well as corporate responses to the civil rights movement and urban crisis in the 1960s and 1970s and the widespread adoption of affirmative action in the 1980s and 1990s.--P. [i]. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vi, 313 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-305) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511651878 0511651872 0521515092 9780521515092 0521730805 9780521730808 0511633939 9780511633935 9780511814051 0511814054 1107190436 9781107190436 0511632738 9780511632730 0511631529 9780511631528 |