The Fifth Freedom (eBook)

Jobs, Politics, and Civil Rights in the United States, 1941-1972

Anthony S. Chen (Autor)

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2009
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3139-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Where did affirmative action in employment come from? The conventional wisdom is that it was instituted during the Johnson and Nixon years through the backroom machinations of federal bureaucrats and judges. The Fifth Freedom presents a new perspective, tracing the roots of the policy to partisan conflicts over fair employment practices (FEP) legislation from the 1940s to the 1970s. Drawing on untapped sources, Anthony Chen chronicles the ironic, forgotten role played by American conservatives in the development of affirmative action. Decades before affirmative action began making headlines, millions of Americans across the country debated whether government could and should regulate job discrimination. On one side was an interfaith and interracial bloc of liberals, who demanded FEP legislation that would establish a centralized system for enforcing equal treatment in the labor market. On the other side was a bloc of business-friendly, small-government conservatives, who felt that it was unwise to "e;legislate tolerance"e; and who made common cause with the conservative wing of the Republican party. Conservatives ultimately prevailed, but their obstruction of FEP legislation unintentionally facilitated the rise of affirmative action, a policy their ideological heirs would find even more abhorrent. Broadly interdisciplinary, The Fifth Freedom sheds new light on the role of parties, elites, and institutions in the policymaking process; the impact of racial politics on electoral realignment; the history of civil rights; the decline of New Deal liberalism; and the rise of the New Right.Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

Autor

Anthony S. Chen is associate professor of sociology and public policy at the University of Michigan.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.5.2009
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in American Politics
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives
• Zusatzinfo: 9 halftones. 8 line illus. 19 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Arbeitsrecht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: activism • African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–68) • American capitalism • An American Dilemma • anthony comstock • Anthony Kennedy • Anti-Communism • anti-defamation league • Arnold Aronson • Arsenal of Democracy • bipartisanship • Brown v. Board of Education • Business Ethics • Citizens (Spanish political party) • Civil Rights Act • Civil Rights Act of 1960 • Civil Rights Act of 1964 • Clark Clifford • Class action • Cloture • Communist propaganda • conservative coalition • corporate liberalism • counter-revolutionary • David Garrow • Dean Rusk • demagogue • Discharge petition • disparate impact • Double V Campaign • Employment • employment discrimination • Equal Employment Opportunity Commission • Equal Opportunity • Equal Rights Amendment • Executive Order 10925 • Executive Order 8802 • Fair Deal • Fair Employment Practice Committee • Filibuster • Freedom Riders • Friends Committee on National Legislation • Genuine Opposition • Great Society • Gun politics in the United States • Hidden welfare state • howard university • ira katznelson • Irreconcilables • John F. Kennedy • Judicial Activism • judicial deference • Kevin Phillips (political commentator) • Laboratories of democracy • Legislation • Legislative history • Legislator • Liberalism • March on Washington Movement • Massachusetts liberal • Montgomery Bus Boycott • Murray Kempton • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People • National Labor Relations Act • New Deal coalition • New Federalism • Norman Chandler • Orval Faubus • Party-line vote • political machine • Politics • Progressive Era • Quiet Revolution • Racial segregation • Racism • Reagan Democrat • Realigning election • Reasonable Person • Red Tape • Robert C. Lieberman • Rockefeller Republican • silent majority • Southern Democrats • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee • supermajority • superpower • Theda Skocpol • The Origins of the Urban Crisis • Thomas E. Dewey • Veto • Voting • voting bloc • Voting Rights Act of 1965 • Walter Dean Burnham • War pension • Wayne Morse • Westbrook Pegler • What Happened • Whitney Young • Yellow-dog contract
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3139-3 / 1400831393
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3139-5 / 9781400831395