| Abstrakt: |
During the early years of the Great Migration (1915-1930), over one million African Americans moved north, drawn by the possibilities of jobs. Migrants often encountered young African American social service professionals who worked as placement secretaries and ''efficiency men and women'' in the factories of the north. Their work, funded almost entirely by industrialists was controversial. This study examines this important work and discusses the contradictions of working with industrialists whose basic interest was not in opportunity and equality but rather in the creation of a permanent pool of unskilled and poorly paid African American workers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
