Download or read book Politics and Jobs written by Margaret Weir and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1993-02-14 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Measures for African-Americans. Highlighting the limited capacities of the American national state, employment policy also attracted charges of waste, fraud, and corruption. By the 1970s, antipathy to the federal government and racial antagonism dominated the politics in this field, and any ideas for new programs quickly became entangled with preexisting problems.