Freedom is not enough : the opening of the American work place /

"Freedom Is Not Enough : The Opening of the American Workplace" by Nancy MacLean --- "In the 1950s, the exclusion of women and of black and Latino men from higher-paying jobs was so universal as to seem normal to most Americans. Today, diversity in the workforce is a point of pride. H...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: MacLean, Nancy
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Cambridge, Mass. : R. Sage ; Harvard University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Discrimination in employment > United States.
Sex discrimination in employment > United States.
Minorities > United States.
Segregation > United States.
Discrimination sexuelle dans l'emploi > États-Unis.
Ségrégation > États-Unis.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Discrimination in employment
Minorities
Segregation
Sex discrimination in employment
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • I. African Americans shake the old order
  • 1. The rightness of whiteness
  • 2. The fight begins
  • 3. Civil rights at work
  • II. Others reposition themselves
  • 4. Women challenge "Jane Crow"
  • 5. Are Mexican Americans "white" or "people of color"?
  • 6. Jewish Americans divide over justice
  • 7. Conservatives shift from "massive resistance" to "color-blindness"
  • III. The challenge of the new order
  • 8. The lonesomeness of pioneering
  • 9. The struggle for inclusion since the Reagan era.

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