Collection of essays on patterns of racial discrimination in respect of employment policy concerning Blacks in the USA together with comments on relevant labour legislation - examines the structure, functions and substance of federal equal employment opportunities laws, covers collective bargaining, fair recruitment as defined in the 1964 civil rights (human rights) act, the conciliation and arbitration functions of the equal employment opportunity commission, etc., and includes a report of the situation in the construction industry. References and statistical tables.
Interdisciplinary study of the plight of Black labour force in the employment market of the USA - interrelates historical and cultural factors of black society, constitutional issues, the impact of economic theory, social theory and religion, legislative (labour legislation comments) and judicial approaches to fair employment to demonstrate past discrimination against negroes and the need to adopt policy including employment policy calculated to induce change. Statistical tables.
Covering the period from the abolition of slavery through the events that preceded and affected the adoption of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Black Labor and the American Legal System examines the major legislative and legal developments relating to the employment discrimination. The historical consequences of the racial practices of employers and organized labor, as well as of the federal government, are analyzed within the context of law and social change. The evolution of federal labor policy is traced through key decisions of the National Labor Relations Board and the courts as they have interpreted the application of labor law to racial discrimination.
Employment, Race, and the Lawdives into the history of employment discrimination toward people of color in the United States. This title looks at legislation that has helped battle employment discrimination, as well as race-based discrimination at work today.Features include essential facts, a glossary, references, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black Americans. In this 'precise and eloquent work' - as described in its Pulitzer Prize citation - Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history - an 'Age of Neoslavery' that thrived in the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II. Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Blackmon unearths the lost stories of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude thereafter. By turns moving, sobering and shocking, this unprecedented account reveals these stories, the companies that profited the most from neoslavery, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today.
Black Natural Law offers a new way of understanding the African American political tradition. Iconoclastically attacking left (including James Baldwin and Audre Lorde), right (including Clarence Thomas and Ben Carson), and center (Barack Obama), Vincent William Lloyd charges that many Black leaders today embrace secular, white modes of political engagement, abandoning the deep connections between religious, philosophical, and political ideas that once animated Black politics. By telling the stories of Frederick Douglass, Anna Julia Cooper, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Martin Luther King, Jr., Lloyd shows how appeals to a higher law, or God's law, have long fueled Black political engagement. Such appeals do not seek to implement divine directives on earth; rather, they pose a challenge to the wisdom of the world, and they mobilize communities for collective action. Black natural law is deeply democratic: while charismatic leaders may provide the occasion for reflection and mobilization, all are capable of discerning the higher law using our human capacities for reason and emotion. At a time when continuing racial injustice poses a deep moral challenge, the most powerful intellectual resources in the struggle for justice have been abandoned. Black Natural Law recovers a rich tradition, and it examines just how this tradition was forgotten. A Black intellectual class emerged that was disconnected from social movement organizing and beholden to white interests. Appeals to higher law became politically impotent: overly rational or overly sentimental. Recovering the Black natural law tradition provides a powerful resource for confronting police violence, mass incarceration, and today's gross racial inequities. Black Natural Law will change the way we understand natural law, a topic central to the Western ethical and political tradition. While drawing particularly on African American resources, Black Natural Law speaks to all who seek politics animated by justice.
EMPLOYMENT LAW STUDIES------ BOOK THEME: The Evasion of African American Workers dispels the euphoric idealism in vogue today which purports that civil rights laws and social protest movements are dispensable. It gives credence to the claims of millions of African American workers who believe that they have been discriminated against on their jobs and, simultaneously, it forcefully appeals to the American legal community to take the lead in taking action to avert disasterous socioeconomic consequences now facing the African American community.----- TABLE OF CONTENTS: (1). Chapter One: "The Great Implosion" (2). Chapter Two: "The Legacy of Chattel Slavery" (3). Chapter Three: "Origins of Race in the American Workforce" (4). Chapter Four: "Washington & DuBois Revisited" (5) Chapter Five: "Employment At Will" (6) Chapter Six: "Workplace Harassment: An American Tragedy" (7) Chapter Seven: "Racial Slurs and Symbols..." (8). Chapter Eight: "Surveillance and the Criminalization of Work" (9). Chapter Nine: "Degradation of Servitude- A New Common Law Doctrine" (10). Chapter Ten: "Risk Management, Race, and Employment" (11). Chapter Eleven: "Tale of an African American Worker" (12). Chapter Twelve: "Court Access and the African American Worker"------ BOOK SUMMARY: Chapters One through Four provide unique perspectives concentrating primarily upon the historical origins of the critical problems facing African American workers in the early part of the twenty-first century. Chapter One directs attention to three of the most critical relationships bolstering the African American Community: that of parent-child, husband-wife, and employer-employee. Chapter One offers a prophetic warning to this nation; namely, that disastrous genocidal consequences are imminent, should current trends persist unabated. Chapter Two focuses attention on the economic impact of American slavery on the current crisis: while African Americans make up thirteen percent of the total population of the United States, their net worth is only 1.2 percent of the total net worth of the nation, and this percentage of total net worth has not changed since the end of the Civil War in 1865. Next, Chapter Three analyzes the social impact of American slavery on the current crisis: the Free Soil and Free Labor movements which had coalesced into the Republican Party during the 1850´s, and nominated Abraham Lincoln as its anti-slavery presidential candidate in 1860, had been primarily and exclusively a white workers´ political movement. Thus, from the end of the Civil War in 1865, up through the 1950s, African American workers were systematically excluded from predominantly white labor unions, high-paying jobs, and apprenticeships in the trades. Finally, ending the historical component of this book, Chapter Four looks at two of Black America´s greatest leaders-- Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois-- in an effort to isolate and to revitalize their essential thoughts on similar economic problems facing African American workers in these early days of the twenty-first century. *** Turning to traditional law topics-- the common law, statutory law, and constitutional law-- Chapters Five through Nine analyze weaknesses in the current American legal system: e.g., the draconian impact of the at-will employment doctrine on African American workers in Chapter Five; the daunting task of proving "discriminatory intent" in hostile work environment cases in Chapter Six; the increasing workplace tolerance of racial slurs and symbols in Chapter Seven; the devastating impact of incarcertaion, crime and workplace surveillance in Chapter Eight; and a recommendation for a newer, more pertinent legal doctrine (i.e., "the degradation of servitude") in Chapter Nine.*** Chapters Ten through Twelve close out the book with three novel and unique perspectives on African American employment problems. Chapter Ten purports that the risks of attaining
New York Times Bestseller • Notable Book of the Year • Editors' Choice Selection One of Bill Gates’ “Amazing Books” of the Year One of Publishers Weekly’s 10 Best Books of the Year Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction An NPR Best Book of the Year Winner of the Hillman Prize for Nonfiction Gold Winner • California Book Award (Nonfiction) Finalist • Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History) Finalist • Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize This “powerful and disturbing history” exposes how American governments deliberately imposed racial segregation on metropolitan areas nationwide (New York Times Book Review). Widely heralded as a “masterful” (Washington Post) and “essential” (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law offers “the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation” (William Julius Wilson). Exploding the myth of de facto segregation arising from private prejudice or the unintended consequences of economic forces, Rothstein describes how the American government systematically imposed residential segregation: with undisguised racial zoning; public housing that purposefully segregated previously mixed communities; subsidies for builders to create whites-only suburbs; tax exemptions for institutions that enforced segregation; and support for violent resistance to African Americans in white neighborhoods. A groundbreaking, “virtually indispensable” study that has already transformed our understanding of twentieth-century urban history (Chicago Daily Observer), The Color of Law forces us to face the obligation to remedy our unconstitutional past.
Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's capital. Emblematic of the ongoing tensions between America's expansive democratic promises and its enduring racial realities, Washington often has served as a national battleground for contentious issues, including slavery, segregation, civil rights, the drug war, and gentrification. But D.C. is more than just a seat of government, and authors Chris Myers Asch and George Derek Musgrove also highlight the city's rich history of local activism as Washingtonians of all races have struggled to make their voices heard in an undemocratic city where residents lack full political rights. Tracing D.C.'s massive transformations--from a sparsely inhabited plantation society into a diverse metropolis, from a center of the slave trade to the nation's first black-majority city, from "Chocolate City" to "Latte City--Asch and Musgrove offer an engaging narrative peppered with unforgettable characters, a history of deep racial division but also one of hope, resilience, and interracial cooperation.
