This volume seeks to assess current knowledge of the effectiveness of recent governmental efforts to eliminate discrimination in the labor market based on race or sex. A safe proposition is that the society is making a more active effort to eliminate discrimination and its consequences in the labor market than in education or housing. Researchers in industrial relations want to know: With what effect?Few persons are unfamiliar with the consequences for black Americans of several hundred years of slavery and racial discrimination. In the mid-sixties, the federal government as well as other institutions began to respond with some seriousness to the problems created by racial discrimination. A well-known watershed is the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
