Black power at work : community control, affirmative action, and the construction industry / edited by David Goldberg and Trevor Griffey.

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Other Authors: Goldberg, David A., 1972-, Griffey, Trevor, 1975-
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : ILR Press, 2010.
Subjects:
African American construction workers.
African American labor union members.
Construction workers > Labor unions > United States.
Affirmative action programs > United States.
Labor movement > United States.
Black power > United States.
Civil rights movements > United States.
Physical Description:pages ; cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction : constructing black power / David Goldberg and Trevor Griffey
  • "Revolution has come to Brooklyn" : construction trades protests and the Negro revolt of 1963 / Brian Purnell
  • "The laboratory of democracy" : construction industry racism in Newark and the limits of liberalism / Julia Rabig
  • "Work for me also means work for the community I come from" : black contractors, black capitalism, and affirmative action in the Bay Area / John Rosen
  • Community control of construction, independent unionism, and the "short black power movement" in Detroit / David Goldberg
  • "The stone wall behind" : Chicago's Coalition for United Community Action and labor's overseers, 1968-1973 / Erik Gellman
  • "The blacks should not be administering the Philadelphia plan" : Nixon, the hard hats, and "voluntary" affirmative action / Trevor Griffey
  • From jobs to power : the United Construction Workers and Title VII community organizing in the 1970s / Trevor Griffey
  • Conclusion : white male identity politics, the building trades, and the future of American labor / David Goldberg and Trevor Griffey.