Negro Employment in Land and Air Transport: A Study of Ra...
Northrup, Herbert R. / Jr. / Leone, Richard D.
The authors examine both past and current practices and policies influencing black employment in the railroad, airline, trucking, and urban transit industries. Technological unemployment, declining traffic, and discrimination by unions, carriers, and government agencies have reduced both the number and proportion of blacks in the railroad industry, which was once one of the nation's leading employers of blacks.
These, same railroading mores ha...