The Evasion of African American Workers: Critical Thoughts by Roderick O. Ford J.D. PDF

"EMPLOYMENT legislation STUDIES------

BOOK THEME:

The Evasion of African American staff dispels the euphoric idealism fashionable this day which purports that civil rights legislation and social protest pursuits are dispensable. It offers credence to the claims of thousands of African American employees who think that they have got been discriminated opposed to on their jobs and, at the same time, it forcefully appeals to the yankee criminal neighborhood to take the lead in taking motion to steer clear of disasterous socioeconomic outcomes now dealing with the African American community.-----

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

(1). bankruptcy One: ""The nice Implosion""
(2). bankruptcy Two:""The Legacy of Chattel Slavery""
(3). bankruptcy Three:""Origins of Race within the American Workforce""
(4). bankruptcy Four:""Washington & DuBois Revisited""
(5) bankruptcy Five:""Employment At Will""
(6) bankruptcy Six:""Workplace Harassment: An American Tragedy""
(7) bankruptcy Seven: ""Racial Slurs and Symbols...""
(8). bankruptcy Eight:""Surveillance and the Criminalization of Work""
(9). bankruptcy Nine:""Degradation of Servitude- a brand new universal legislation Doctrine""
(10). bankruptcy Ten:""Risk administration, Race, and Employment""
(11). bankruptcy Eleven:""Tale of an African American Worker""
(12). bankruptcy Twelve:""Court entry and the African American Worker""------

BOOK SUMMARY:

Chapters One via 4 offer distinct views concentrating essentially upon the historic origins of the serious difficulties dealing with African American employees within the early a part of the twenty-first century. bankruptcy One directs awareness to 3 of the main serious relationships bolstering the African American neighborhood: that of parent-child, husband-wife, and employer-employee. bankruptcy One bargains a prophetic caution to this country; particularly, that disastrous genocidal results are drawing close, should still present traits persist unabated. bankruptcy focuses recognition at the fiscal impression of yank slavery at the present challenge: whereas African americans make up 13 percentage of the whole inhabitants of the USA, their web worthy is simply 1.2 percentage of the whole internet worthy of the state, and this percent of overall web worthy has now not replaced because the finish of the Civil warfare in 1865. subsequent, bankruptcy 3 analyzes the social influence of yankee slavery at the present situation: the loose Soil and loose exertions pursuits which had coalesced into the Republican celebration through the 1850´s, and nominated Abraham Lincoln as its anti-slavery presidential candidate in 1860, were basically and completely a white staff´ political move. hence, from the top of the Civil warfare in 1865, up during the Fifties, African American employees have been systematically excluded from predominantly white exertions unions, high-paying jobs, and apprenticeships within the trades. ultimately, finishing the historic section of this ebook, bankruptcy 4 seems to be at of Black America´s maximum leaders-- Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois-- on the way to isolate and to revitalize their crucial techniques on comparable monetary difficulties dealing with African American employees in those early days of the twenty-first century. ***
Turning to standard legislations topics-- the typical legislation, statutory legislation, and constitutional law-- Chapters 5 via 9 research weaknesses within the present American felony method: e.g., the draconian impression of the at-will employment doctrine on African American employees in bankruptcy 5; the daunting activity of proving ""discriminatory intent"" in antagonistic paintings atmosphere instances in bankruptcy Six; the expanding office tolerance of racial slurs and logos in bankruptcy Seven; the devastating impression of incarcertaion, crime and place of work surveillance in bankruptcy 8; and a advice for a more moderen, extra pertinent criminal doctrine (i.e., ""the degradation of servitude"") in bankruptcy Nine.***
Chapters Ten via Twelve shut out the e-book with 3 novel and specified views on African American employment difficulties. bankruptcy Ten purports that the hazards of attaining