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The Black O

Steve Watkins

The story of the largest racial job discrimination class action lawsuit of its time, involving the Shoney's restaurant chain in 1988, and serving as a stark refutation that the civil rights movement eliminated systemic discrimination from the workplace.

GenresShoney's IncPersonnel managementDiscrimination in restaurantsUnited StatesCase studiesDiscrimination in employment

297 pages, 3 editions

English edition · First published 1995 by The University of Georgia Press · ISBN 9780820344034

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Editions

3 editions

English

  • The Black O · The University of Georgia Press · 2012 · ISBN 9780820344034 This page
  • The Black O: Racism and Redemption in an American Corporate Empire · University of Georgia Press · 1997 · ISBN 9780820319162
  • The Black O: How Racism and Arrogance Brought Down an American Corporate Empire · UNKNO · 1995 · ISBN 9781563522307

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