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Radical Reconstruction: (Re) Embracing Affirmative Action In Private Employment, Hina B. Shah

Publications

The history of employment in this country is the history of racism. Using public and private mechanisms as well as violence to devise and enforce segregation and preferential treatment, the white male institutionalized an unprecedented advantage in the labor market. Yet this is rarely acknowledged as a factor in the current widening economic disparity between whites and blacks. Today, many white Americans, cloaked in the myth of colorblindness and meritocracy, refuse to see the persistence of racial prejudice, disadvantage and discrimination in the labor market.

This article is a call for a radical reconstruction of the private labor market through …

Legal Issues In Affirmative Action - Problems Affecting Women, Assembly Select Committee On Fair Employment Practices, Assembly Committee On Judiciary

California Assembly

Today, the Assembly Select Committee on Fair Employment Practices, and the Assembly Judiciary Committee are holding a joint interim hearing on legal issues on affirmative action problems affecting women. Our purpose today, is to examine some of the problems confronted by women in employment. We will examine the areas of recruitment, hiring, mobility, the grievance procedures, and the emerging issue of collective bargaining. The committees are also very interested in examining the issue of ethnic women, and the progress they have made in equalizing their representation in the labor force.

Transcript Of Hearing On Effectiveness Of Affirmative Action In The Public Sector, Assembly Select Committee On Fair Employment Practices

California Assembly

The subject of today's interim hearing is one of the most sensitive of public policy issues: affirmative action in public employment. This Committee will be examining the state of affairs of the state and local governments efforts relative to affirmative action and equal employment both in the areas of "hiring" and upward mobility. Additionally, the Committee will develop proposals to encourage and stimulate more effective affirmative action progr~s in the private and public sectors.