Hiring the Black Worker: The Racial Integration of the Southern Textile Industry, 1960-1980 - Softcover

Minchin, Timothy J.

 
9780807847718: Hiring the Black Worker: The Racial Integration of the Southern Textile Industry, 1960-1980
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0807847712 ISBN 13: 9780807847718
Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press, 1999

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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.

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Timothy J. Minchin teaches American history at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. He is author of What Do We Need a Union For?: The TWUA in the South, 1945-1955 and the award-winning Hiring the Black Worker: The Racial Integration of the Southern Textile Industry, 1960-1980.

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Based on oral history interviews and never-before-used legal records, this book reveals how African American men and women fought to integrate the South's largest industry.

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Based on oral history interviews and never-before-used legal records, this book reveals how African American men and women fought to integrate the South's largest industry.

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Verlag
The University of North Carolina Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0807847712
ISBN 13 
9780807847718
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
356
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