Timothy J Minchin

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Hiring the Black Worker: The Racial Integration of the Southern Textile Industry, 1960-1980Paperback, 10 May 1999

Hiring the Black Worker: The Racial Integration of the Southern Textile Industry, 1960-1980
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Print Length
360 pages
Language
English
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Date Published
10 May 1999
ISBN-10
0807847712
ISBN-13
9780807847718

Description

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.

Product Details

Author:
Timothy J Minchin
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
10 May 1999
Dimensions:
23.55 x 15.57 x 2.46 cm
ISBN-10:
0807847712
ISBN-13:
9780807847718
Language:
English
Location:
Chapel Hill
Pages:
360
Weight:
576.06 gm

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