Antoine Harris
Running Head: Growth of Minorities
Growth of Minorities and the Changing of America Workforce
Antoine Harris
Strayer University
PAD530 Public Personnel Management
May 30, 2009
To
Dr. Orlando Rivero, D.B.A.
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Abstract:
The following paper will review information on the changing workforce of America during the 20th century. The paper will specifically focus on what the workforce of America looked like in the 20th century and the role it had with minorities. The paper will also focus on eight problems the American workforce had faced during the 20th century. Finally, the paper will also review the impact of affirmative actions on the workplace regarding minorities.
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In this paper you will learn about the problems faced during the 20th century. You will learn that each Company has their own difficulty to face and many are not sure how to tackle these troubles. Some have to try to combat a number of problems however have not been successful. Other companies have entirely ignored the harms and let the company continue running the way it has always ran. The 20th century was know for it’s great shift in the way that vast numbers of people lived as a result of technological, medical, social, ideological, and political innovation. Terms like ideology, world war, genocide, and nuclear war entered common usage. The early 20 century was noted as a period of healing and reconstruction for the United States of America (Berge 1998). Rebuilding a country that was torn apart by a Civil War, this nation was forced to change the view that many Americans had about newly freed black slaves. During this particular time, the black population, as a whole, was going through turmoil due to this struggle. In the first half of the century, the unemployment rate oscillated from a low of 1.4 percent in 1918–1919 to a peak of 24.9 percent in 1933 and
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