Merit employment is not only the law of the land, but good business and good sense, employers who have tried it state, and tell how they broke the ice to let economics work with ethics to right old wrongs and vanquish discrimination on the job.
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References
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NorgrenPaul H.WebsterAlbert N.BorgesonRoger D.PattenMaud B., Employing the Negro in American Industry (New York: Industrial Relations Counselors, Inc., 1959), pp. 159–161. The region identified as the South includes the states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas, along with the border states or areas of Delaware, Maryland, the District of Columbia, West Virginia, and Kentucky. The contrasting region includes all other states.
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BullockPaul, Merit Employment (Los Angeles: Institute of Industrial Relations UCLA, 1960), pp. 51–52.
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See note 1.
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Figures on occupational trends in the 1960's axe provided in a brochure published by the United States Department of Labor, Manpower: Challenge of the 1960's, p. 11.
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Bullock, op. cit., pp. 35–36.
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Evidence of some of these problems is given in Norgren and Others, op. cit., pp. 47, 88.
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The booklet to which reference is made (published in 1954 at New London, Connecticut) is a short manual on proper techniques to be used by group supervisors in implementing merit employment. A more recent brochure, of great value to management and industrial relations personnel, is Merit Employment: What It Is, Why It Works, and How It Can Help You, published by the Management and the Industrial Relations Committees on Merit Employment, in the Los Angeles area (P.O. Box 75839, Sanford Station, Los Angeles 5).
