Servants of the State - Managing Diversity and Democracy in the Federal Workforce 1933-1953

Informationen zum Autor Margaret Rung is an associate professor of history at Roosevelt University. Klappentext This text traces the halting rise of a pluralistic attitude in hiring and promotion procedures within the federal government. It reveals how circumstances in each of these eras shaped how federal managers conceptualized merit for female and African-American workers from 1933 through 1953. Zusammenfassung Rung traces the halting rise of a pluralistic attitude in hiring and promotion procedures within the federal government. Ranging from the Great Depression to World War II to the early days of both the civil rights movement and the Cold War, she reveals how federal managers conceptualized merit for female and African American workers.

Product details

• Authors: Margaret Rung, Margaret C Rung, Margaret C. Rung
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2002
• EAN: 9780820323626
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-2362-6
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Öffentliche Verwaltung, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Politische Strukturen und Prozesse, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Politics / Current Events, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations