Freedom Is Not Enough The Opening of the American Workplace

Name: Freedom Is Not Enough The Opening of the American Workplace
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ISBN: 9780674027497

ISBN-10: 0674027493

ISBN-13: 9780674027497

Edition: 2006

Authors: Nancy MacLean

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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. How did such a transformation come about? In this bold and groundbreaking work, Nancy MacLean shows how African-American and later Mexican-American civil rights activists and feminists concluded that freedom alone would not suffice: access to jobs at all levels is a requisite of full citizenship. Tracing the struggle to open the American workplace to all, MacLean chronicles the cultural and political advances that have irrevocably changed our nation over the past fifty years. Freedom Is Not…

Book details

List price: $32.50
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English

David N. Gellner is Lecturer in the Social Anthropology of South Asia, University of Oxford.Nancy MacLean is Associate Professor of History and African-American Studies at Northwestern University



List of Illustrations


Prologue: Jobs and Belonging



African Americans Shake the Old Order



The Rightness of Whiteness



The Fight Begins



Civil Rights at Work



Others Reposition Themselves



Women Challenge "Jane Crow"



Are Mexican Americans "Whites" or "People of Color"?



Jewish Americans Divide over Justice



Conservatives Shift from "Massive Resistance" to "Color-Blindness"



The Challenge of the New Order



The Lonesomeness of Pioneering



The Struggle for Inclusion since the Reagan Era


Epilogue


Abbreviations in Notes


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index