Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace

by Nancy MacLean

Book Overview

In the 1950s, the exclusion of women and of black and Latino men from higher-paying jobs was so universal as to seem normal to most Americans. Today, diversity in the workforce is a point of pride. How did such a transformation come about? In this bold and groundbreaking work, Nancy MacLean shows how African-American and later Mexican-American civil rights activists and feminists concluded that freedom alone would not suffice: access to jobs at all...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674027493
• ISBN13: 9780674027497
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"