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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Delton, Jennifer A. (Jennifer Alice), 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge [U.K.] ; New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Temas:
University of South Alabama
Discrimination in employment > United States.
African Americans > Economic conditions.
Affirmative action programs > United States.
Noirs américains > Conditions économiques.
Programmes d'action positive > États-Unis.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Affirmative action programs
African Americans > Economic conditions
Discrimination in employment
Diskriminierung
Quotierung
Wirtschaftliche Lage
Arbeitnehmer
Schwarze
Minderheit > Wirtschaft > USA > Geschichte 20. Jh.
United States
Schwärze
USA
Schwarze > Amerika > Wirtschaft > Geschichte.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The African American struggle for jobs
  • Fair employment is good business
  • Racial liberalism and the mid-twentieth-century businessman
  • Human relations in management
  • Human relations at International Harvester and Pitney-Bowes
  • How compliance became voluntarism
  • The National Association of Manufacturers helps out
  • Changing hiring criteria
  • The Du Pont Company's affirmative action efforts
  • Epilogue : From affirmative action to diversity.

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