From Direct Action to Affirmative Action
Subtitle: Fair Employment Law and Policy in America, 1933-1972
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: April 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780807123836
Subjects: Employment & labour law; Human rights; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Second World War, 1939-1945; Politics/International Relations; Law; Politics / Current Events; USA; Public Policy - General; Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice; Discrimination; Labor & Employment; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; Public Policy - Social Policy
First sentence: A generation after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed racial discrimination in employment, the dominant interpretation of equality was that racial minorities and women should be represented at every level in the work force in some proportion to their representation in the labor market.