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“The Largest Civil Rights Organization Today”: Title VII and the Transformation of the Public Sector

Thomas J. Sugrue
Labor (2014) 11 (3): 25–29.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2687691
Published: 01 September 2014
...Thomas J. Sugrue © 2014 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2014 “The Largest Civil Rights Organization Today”: Title VII and the Transformation of the Public Sector Thomas J. Sugrue In a 1966 interview, Gloster Current, a longtime official at the National Association...
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Title VII, the Rise of Workplace Fairness, and the Decline of Economic Justice, 1964–2013

Touré F. Reed
Labor (2014) 11 (3): 31–36.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2687655
Published: 01 September 2014
...Touré F. Reed © 2014 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2014 Title VII, the Rise of Workplace Fairness, and the Decline of Economic Justice, 1964–2013 Touré F. Reed The celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the March on Washington prompted many to reflect...
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Title VII in Economic-Historical Perspective

Gavin Wright
Labor (2014) 11 (3): 37–41.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2687664
Published: 01 September 2014
...Gavin Wright © 2014 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2014 Title VII in Economic-Historical Perspective Gavin Wright The Civil Rights Act of 1964 fully deserves its status as a watershed achievement in American political and social history, and Title VII merits full...
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Exhibit Review: The UAW and the Release of Mandela

Denver A. Brunsman
Labor (2009) 6 (4): 11–17.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2009-028
Published: 01 December 2009
...Denver A. Brunsman In February 2009, the Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, presented an exhibit titled Freedom: The UAW and the Release of Nelson Mandela . The exhibit documented the UAW's longtime financial and moral support for global movements against...
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Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women’s Lives at Work by Gillian Thomas

Nancy Woloch
Labor (2018) 15 (1): 128–129.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-4288818
Published: 01 March 2018
... Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bars discrimination in employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex, is now a central topic in women’s labor history. Recent works by Nancy MacLean, Serena Mayeri, and Katherine Turk, among others, draw attention to this crucial...
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Equality on Trial: Gender and Rights in the Modern American Workplace, by Katherine Turk

Ryan Patrick Murphy
Labor (2019) 16 (4): 126–127.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-7790419
Published: 01 December 2019
..., feminist organizations, labor unions, gay rights leaders, and other cultural dissidents used Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act — the watershed law that outlawed workplace discrimination based on sex, race, and religion, among other attributes — to advance their political agendas. Turk argues...
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Where's the Care?

Eileen Boris
Labor (2014) 11 (3): 43–47.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2687646
Published: 01 September 2014
... of $2.25 an hour with benefits, the job was a real improvement over waitressing at Donut Dinette. But the personnel office rejected her application, claiming that the firm did not hire women with preschoolers. Her subsequent suit led to the first US Supreme Court decision on Title VII in 1971.1...
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Introduction

Eric Arnesen
Labor (2014) 11 (3): 15–18.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2687673
Published: 01 September 2014
... origin was now outlawed in the realm of public accommodations; the act’s Title VII added the category of sex to the list and banned most employment discrimination by unions and employers. The act was part of a “story about a rare event in America: a radical shift in national social policy,” argued...
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Editor's Introduction

Leon Fink
Labor (2014) 11 (3): 1–3.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2687723
Published: 01 September 2014
... a well-trod narrative of worker victimization in favor of a more complex treatment of the record of labor-­ management violence. Meanwhile, several distinguished commentators discuss Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 at its half-century mark, following an informative introduction...
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964: The Difference a Law Can Make

Nancy MacLean
Labor (2014) 11 (3): 19–24.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2687682
Published: 01 September 2014
... such as restaurants, motels, and transportation. The Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decisions had no bite, for exam- ple, until the civil rights act added teeth. Its Title VI, which enabled the withdrawal of federal funds from districts that continued to discriminate, sparked the first school...
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“Bread and Roses”: The Evolution of a Song, Labor Songbooks, and Union Culture

Tom Juravich
Labor (2020) 17 (2): 81–100.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-8114769
Published: 01 May 2020
..., including Pete Seeger and Bob Reiser’s Carry It On and the latest edition of the AFL-CIO’s Songs for Labor . 1 By making “Bread and Roses” the title cut of her 1976 record album, Judy Collins brought the song to a popular audience; musicians as diverse as John Denver, Bruce “Utah” Phillips...
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Contributors

Labor (2004) 1 (2): 162–164.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-1-2-162
Published: 01 May 2004
... Working-Class Expe- rience (1998). Greene is currently writing a book titled Constructing an Empire: The United States and the Building of the Panama Canal, 1904 to 1914. Kathleen Mapes is an assistant professor at the State University of New York at Gen- eseo, where she teaches labor, rural...
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On the Importance of Affirmative Action: Labor Liberals and the Recasting of “Contract Unionism”

Dennis Deslippe
Labor (2012) 9 (2): 47–72.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-1539953
Published: 01 May 2012
... in the Labor Department that would be folded into a European social democrat – inspired plan to deal with employment, manpower, train- ing, and apprenticeship in a wholesale fashion. Instead of Humphrey’s scheme, Con- gress passed Title VII of Civil Rights Act of This measure banned...
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“Too Glamorous to Be Considered Workers”: Flight Attendants and Pink-Collar Activism in Mid-Twentieth-Century America

Kathleen M. Barry
Labor (2006) 3 (3): 119–138.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2006-008
Published: 01 September 2006
..., 1967, “400.5—1967” folder, box 13, accession date August 18, 1972, ALPA-SSD Collection. 132 3:3 LABOR to airline passengers and a potentially dangerous impairment of the highest possible degree” of cabin safety.39 Title VII, Hot Pants...
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David Montgomery, Scholar

James Green
Labor (2013) 10 (1): 49–52.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-1725964
Published: 01 March 2013
.... The breadth of Montgomery’s vision is reflected in the title of his last book, Citizen Worker: The Experience of Workers with Democracy and the Free Market dur- ing the Nineteenth Century. It is worth noting that the subtitle of this work forecast the theme of this grand Organization of American...
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Finding Labor History in the History of Capitalism

Heather Wilpone-Welborn
Labor (2017) 14 (2): 13–20.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-3790096
Published: 01 May 2017
... Recently, a group of historians gathered at the University of Illinois at Chicago for a daylong workshop organized by Leon Fink and Jeffrey Sklansky dedicated, as its title proclaimed, to thinking “Beyond ‘Free’ and ‘Unfree’ Labor.” 1 Nine scholars submitted work—some new and unpublished, some not so...
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Editor’s Introduction

Leon Fink
Labor (2019) 16 (3): 1–3.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-7569650
Published: 01 September 2019
... smorgasbord of reviews, two groups of entrées beckon for particular attention. In the first group are a few titles that connect labor and the history of capitalism with an ambitious transnational reach. These include Sven Beckert and Christine Desan, eds., American Capitalism: New Histories ; Leon Fink...
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The LAWCHA Watch

Dan Letwin
Labor (2005) 2 (4): 7–8.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2-4-7
Published: 01 December 2005
..., a wide assortment of unionists, scholars, and social activists con- verged on the University of California at Santa Barbara for a long-awaited confer- ence — sponsored jointly by the Southwest Labor Studies Association (SWLSA) and LAWCHA — titled “Labor in Protest: The Legacy of the 1960s...
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The Long Deep Grudge: A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War in the American Heartland by Toni Gilpin

Charles Postel
Labor (2021) 18 (1): 109–111.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-8767447
Published: 01 March 2021
... 2021 Toni Gilpin has written a splendid history of industrial conflict. Big capital in the title refers to the implacably antiunion owners of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which in 1902 merged into International Harvester (IH). The radical labor of the title are mainly the officers...
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The Poverty of Disaster: Debt and Insecurity in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Alannah Tomkins
Labor (2023) 20 (4): 121–122.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-10829354
Published: 01 December 2023
...-Class History Association 2023 This 2019 monograph about the pervasive fear of debt and the consequences of legal insolvency has now been issued as a paperback. The title is taken from Daniel Defoe's categorization of the financial difficulty that befell middling people as a result of “Misfortune...
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