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Freedom Is Not Enough

The Opening of the American Workplace

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PAPERBACK

$32.50 • £28.95 • €29.95

ISBN 9780674027497

Publication Date: 03/15/2008

Short

496 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

30 halftones

Russell Sage Foundation Books at Harvard University Press

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  • List of Illustrations
  • Prologue: Jobs and Belonging
  • I. African Americans Shake the Old Order
    • 1. The Rightness of Whiteness
    • 2. The Fight Begins
    • 3. Civil Rights at Work
  • II. Others Reposition Themselves
    • 4. Women Challenge “Jane Crow”
    • 5. Are Mexican Americans “Whites” or “People of Color”?
    • 6. Jewish Americans Divide over Justice
    • 7. Conservatives Shift from “Massive Resistance” to “Color-Blindness”
  • III. The Challenge of the New Order
    • 8. The Lonesomeness of Pioneering
    • 9. The Struggle for Inclusion since the Reagan Era
  • Epilogue
  • Abbreviations in Notes
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

Awards & Accolades

  • 2007 Philip Taft Labor History Book Award, ILR School at Cornell University and the Labor and Working-Class History Association
  • 2007 James Willard Hurst Prize, Law and Society Association
  • Co-Winner, 2006 Gustavus Myers Center Outstanding Book Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights

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