The AFL-CIO and the Black Worker: Twenty-Five Years after the Merger.

Hill, Herbert

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Publication Date: 1982

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The AFL-CIO and the Black Worker: Twenty-Five Years after the Merger.

Hill, Herbert

Journal of Intergroup Relations, Special Report: Race and Labor v10 n1 p5-78 Spr 1982

Reviews the Black experience in U.S. labor unions since the merger of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955. Notes that a critical barometer of labor's progressive impact is its treatment of minority and female workers. (Author/GC)

Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Black Employment, Blacks, Court Litigation, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Labor Demands, Labor Legislation, Minority Groups, Racial Discrimination, Racial Relations, Union Members, Unions, United States History

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