Discrimination, Jobs, and Politics: The Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity in the United States Since the New Deal

by Paul Burstein

Throughout this impressive and controversial account of the fight against job discrimination in the United States, Paul Burstein poses searching questions. Why did Congress adopt EEO legislation in the sixties and seventies? Has that legislation made a difference to the people it was intended to help? And what can the struggle for equal employment opportunity tell us about democracy in the United States? "This is an important, well-researched book...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226081354
• ISBN13: 9780226081359
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.