Hiring the Black Worker
The Racial Integration of the Southern Textile Industry, 1960-1980
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 critic…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8078-4771-8
- EAN: 9780807847718
- Produktnummer: 1552043
- Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
- Seitenangabe: 358 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D2.1 cm 577 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 577
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