Few industries are working more assiduously than aircraft and related aerospace companies to expand Negro employment opportunities. Yet it is the unusual aerospace company which has been able to raise its percentage of Negroes to 8 or 10 per cent of a particular facility. The reasons why this is so tell us a great deal about problems of Negro employment, upgrading and intraplant movement, and variations from industry to industry or plant to plant.
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“Half a Million Workers,”Fortune, XXIII (March 1943), 98, 163.
2.
The definition of “aerospace” industry is not precise. Basically, it includes aircraft, missiles, and related aero and space hardware manufacturing and research, but much of what is also electronics is inevitably included in the data.
3.
Aerospace Facts and Figures, Aerospace Industries Association of America, Inc. (Fallbrook, Calif.: Aero Publishers, Inc., 1967), p. 19.
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See RowanRichard L., The Negro in the Steel Industry, The Racial Policies of American Industry, Report No. 3 (Philadelphia: Industrial Research Unit, Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1968).
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See NorthrupHerbert R., The Negro in the Automobile Industry, The Racial Policies of American Industry, Report No. 1, ibid.
6.
For an analysis of early IAM racial policies, see Northrup, Organized Labor and the Negro (New York: Harper & Bros., 1944), pp. 8, 206–208.
7.
Ibid., Chap. IX, for UAW racial policy development.
8.
On this point, see LevinsonHarold M., Determining Forces in Collective Wage Bargaining (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1966), Chap. 2.
