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...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...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

..., 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... desegregation efforts that went beyond tokenism. But the section of the act that prohibited discrimination on the job — Title VII — had the most far-reaching and enduring impact. Civil rights activists had made fair employment legislation their top legislative priority for two decades after Con...

... Roosevelt, July 9, 1942, reel 34, Complaints to Government Agen- cies fi le, Offi ce of Budget and Administration, Region VII, Selected Documents from the Records of the Committee on Fair Employment Practice, Record Group 228, National Archives and Records Manage- ment, College...

... 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...

..., 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...

...Michael S. Neiberg Mutinous Memories: A Subjective History of French Military Protest in 1919 , Perry Matt , Manchester : Manchester University Press , 2019 , vii + 209 pp., £80.00 (cloth) © 2021 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2021 At the beginning...

... with equality feminism the victor by the 1990s. Indeed, Woloch concludes that, even though the ERA was never ratified, single-sex protective labor legislation bit the dust in the late twentieth century. A “de facto ERA” (268) emerged through statutory law—especially Title VII of the Civil Rights Act (1964...

... became law, Hill worked energetically to realize its promise. He reminded NAACP branch presidents that “Title VII is not self-enforcing”: change would come only if workers fi led complaints to activate government intervention.6 Hill guided those who suffered discrimination...

... is assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at Dallas. Her first book, Equality on Trial: Sex and Gender at Work in the Age of Title VII, is forthcoming. ...

... on separate principles. Although it has deep historical roots, it is typically seen as having emerged in the s as part of a “civil rights agenda.”3 The antidiscrimination framework, epitomized by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of was broadened from its initial focus on race...

... was the belated triumph of the Miners for Democracy insurgency with the election of reformer Arnold Miller as union president in 1973. Second, the same year saw women, protected by Title VII’s enforcement, enter the mines as laborers in record numbers. With a focus on the union’s pivotal Pittsburgh...

...Perla M. Guerrero The Other California: Land, Identity, and Politics on the Mexican Borderlands , Castillo-Muñoz Verónica , Berkeley : University of California Press , 2016 , vii + 171 pp., $70.00 (cloth); $70.00 (ebook) Copyright © 2018 Labor and Working-Class History...

...Marcia C. Schenck Bound for Work: Labor, Mobility, and Colonial Rule in Central Mozambique, 1940–1965 . Zachary Kagan Guthrie . Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press , 2018 . vii + 240 pp., $45.00 (cloth and ebook). Copyright © 2021 by Labor and Working-Class History...