Constructing affirmative action : the struggle for equal employment opportunity /

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Between 1965, when President Lyndon B. Johnson defined affirmative action as a legitimate federal goal, and 1972, when President Richard M. Nixon named one of affirmative action's chief antagonists the head of the Department of Labor, government officials at all levels addressed racial economic...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Golland, David Hamilton
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©2011.
Series:Civil rights and the struggle for Black equality in the twentieth century.
Subjects:
Affirmative action programs > United States.
Construction industry > United States.
Minority business enterprises > United States.
Building trades > United States.
Race discrimination > United States.
Minorities > Employment > United States.
Discrimination in employment > United States.
Programmes d'action positive > États-Unis.
Construction > Industrie > États-Unis.
Entreprises appartenant à des minorités > États-Unis.
Métiers de la construction > États-Unis.
Minorités > Travail > États-Unis.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Affirmative action programs
Building trades
Construction industry
Discrimination in employment
Minorities > Employment
Minority business enterprises
Race discrimination
Nationale Minderheit
Rassendiskriminierung
Quotierung
Arbeitsmarkt
United States
USA
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Fighting bureaucratic inertia, 1956-1960
  • Becoming the urban crisis, 1961-1963
  • Grasping at solutions, 1964-1967
  • Pushing the envelope : the Philadelphia plans, 1967-1969
  • Constructing affirmative action, 1970-1973
  • Conclusion : affirmative action and equal employment opportunity.

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