Racial integration in corporate America, 1940--1990
By: Jennifer Delton.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9780521515092; 9780521730808
Subjects: Discrimination in employment -- United States; African Americans -- Economic conditions; Affirmative action programs -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The African American struggle for jobs; title: Fair employment is good business; title: Racial liberalism and the mid-twentieth century executive; title: Human relations in management; title: Human relations at international harvester and pitney-bowes; title: How compliance became voluntarism; title: The national association of manufacturers helps out; title: Changing hiring criteria; title: The Du Pont Company's affirmative action efforts; title: Epilogue: From affirmative action to diversity.