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Black power at work : community control, affirmative action, and the construction industry / edited by David Goldberg and Trevor Griffey.
LIBRA HD9715.U52 B53 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American construction workers.
- African American labor union members.
- Construction workers--Labor unions--United States.
- Construction workers.
- Affirmative action programs--United States.
- Affirmative action programs.
- Labor movement.
- Construction workers--Labor unions.
- United States.
- Labor movement--United States.
- Black power--United States.
- Black power.
- Civil rights movements--United States.
- Civil rights movements.
- Physical Description:
- x, 265 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, N.Y. : ILR Press/Cornell University Press, [2010]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780801446580
- 0801446589
- 9780801474316
- 0801474310
- OCLC:
- 606052504
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