Jennifer Delton has waded boldly into controversial territory with her provocative and important study. Approaching workplace integration from a novel perspective, she breaks new ground, provides much food for thought, and adds considerably to our understanding of civil rights and economics in the twentieth century. - Eric Arnesen, George Washington University
In this thoughtful, well-written, and extensively researched study, Jennifer Delton challenges our preconceptions of the attitudes of business toward race in the twentieth century. Delton uncovers prominent examples of how businesses pioneered integration in the workplace. Through innovative hiring, outreach, and training policies, many corporations were instrumental in helping minorities to break into the middle class long before the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The book is an essential source for those who want to fully understand the history of discrimination, affirmative action, and race in American history. - David Beito, University of Alabama
Racial Integration in Corporate America, 1940-1990 is a courageous book. Delton's startling evidence and astute reasoning uncover corporations' internal goals and methods for workplace integration. Superb history, Delton's balanced yet provocative scholarship explains why business leaders became powerful advocates for diversity as good business, as well as good citizenship. - Pamela W. Laird, University of Colorado Denver
Delton traces corporate efforts to achieve racial integration in the workplace...The situations of specific corporations (e.g., International Harvester, Pitney-Bowes, and Du Pont) are explored thoroughly and against the backgrounds of industrial decline and increasing racial tensions. This volume would serve as an excellent supplementary text for classes in race relations, human resources, or labor relations. CHOICE, C.J. Munson, Western Technical College
Racial Integration in Corporate America is a well-researched, valuable, and much needed contribution to an often misunderstood aspect of U.S. history. Canadian Journal of History, Joshua T. McCabe, State University of New York- Albany
In her very engagingly written and provocative book, Jennifer Delton presents the often-ignored history of business leaders who helped to desegregate the workplace in the mid-twentieth century United States...[She] has given us a rich historical narrative to draw on in developing and framing such research. EH.net, Thomas N. Maloney, University of Utah
Jennifer Delton has produced a thought-provoking depiction of the desegregation of the American workplace during the mid-to late twentieth century. -Robert Weems, The Journal of American History
..well-researched book... -Labor Studies Journal
