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

• 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.

Ämnesord

African American construction workers.  (LCSH)

African American labor union members.  (LCSH)

Construction workers  -- Labor unions -- United States. (LCSH)

Affirmative action programs  -- United States. (LCSH)

Labor movement  -- United States. (LCSH)

Black power  -- United States. (LCSH)

Civil rights movements  -- United States. (LCSH)

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