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Negro-White Intelligence Test Scores in Industry: (a Study of) The Effect of Education and Age Matching on Score Differences on the Industrial Personnel Tests
Analysis of tests of gate applicants for auto production jobs at "mid-west" plant, May 1966, finds Negroes scoring below whites. But further analysis shows average white is 2 1/2 years younger, has one year more of education.
If We Can't Solve the Problems of the Ghetto Here, God Help Our Country
Detroit's auto industry undertakes large scale training and hiring of the ghetto hard-core unemployed.
Employment of Negroes in Local Transit Industry
Detroit, among three cities having most Negroes in transit industry, first employed Negroes as motormen in 1900, as conductors in 1937.
Workers Battle Automation
A black production worker describes inroads of automation in auto, steel, and rubber
Experimental and Demonstration Project: Pre-Apprentice Program.
Evaluates the program aimed particularly at minority youth.
Huge Rally Protests Discrimination: Bi-racial Outpouring in Detroit Cheers Pleas for Job and Decent Treatment; "Cadillac Charter" of Rights Adopted
Gives text of "charter."
The Negro Artisan, Report of a Social Study Made under the Direction of Atlanta University; Together with the Proceedings of the Seventh Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems, Held at Atlanta University on May 27th, 1902.
Uses one paragraph to summarize types and numbers of black artisans in Michigan.
Labor and Automobiles
The Negro Worker. Traces Negro's employment experience in the auto plants.
Racial Factors in American Industry
Gives occasional illustrations from Detroit of such items as impact of unemployment, and work and living habits of Negro labor.
Disadvantaged Youth: Problems of Job Placement, Job Creation, and Job Development.
Reviews and evaluates manpower development and training projects initiated 1962-1965, including Detroit's Mayor's Youth Employment Project.