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Hiring the Black Worker
Timothy J. Minchin
其他書名
The Racial Integration of the Southern Textile Industry, 1960-1980
出版University of North Carolina Press, 1999
主題Business & Economics / Labor / GeneralBusiness & Economics / Industries / Fashion & Textile IndustryBusiness & Economics / Workplace Harassment & DiscriminationHistory / United States / 20th CenturyHistory / African American & BlackPolitical Science / Civil RightsPolitical Science / Labor & Industrial RelationsSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black StudiesSocial Science / Minority StudiesSocial Science / Discrimination
ISBN08078247049780807824702
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=61BpAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋In the 1960s and 1970s, the textile industry's workforce underwent a dramatic transformation, as African Americans entered the South's largest industry in growing numbers. Only 3.3 percent of textile workers were black in 1960; by 1978, this number had risen to 25 percent. Using previously untapped legal records and oral history interviews, Timothy Minchin crafts a compelling account of the integration of the mills.

Minchin argues that the role of a labor shortage in spurring black hiring has been overemphasized, pointing instead to the federal government's influence in pressing the textile industry to integrate. He also highlights the critical part played by African American activists. Encouraged by passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, black workers filed antidiscrimination lawsuits against nearly all of the major textile companies. Still, Minchin notes, even after the integration of the mills, African American workers encountered considerable resistance: black women faced continued hiring discrimination, while black men found themselves shunted into low-paying jobs with little hope of promotion.