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 fromhigher-paying jobs was so universal as to seem normal to mostAmericans. Today, diversity in the workforce is a point of pride. How didsuch a transformation come about? In this bold and groundbreakingwork, Nancy MacLean shows how African-American and laterMexican-American civil rights activists and feminists concluded thatfreedom alone would not suffice: access to jobs at all levels is arequisite of full citizenship. Tracing the struggle to open the Americanworkplace to all, MacLean chronicles the cultural and politicaladvances that have irrevocably changed our nation over the past fiftyyears.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674019091
• ISBN13: 9780674019096
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation Publications
• Length: 454 Pages
• Weight: 1.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.5"