TY  - BOOK
AU  - Goldberg,David
AU  - Griffey,Trevor
TI  - Black Power at Work: Community Control, Affirmative Action, and the Construction Industry
SN  - 9780801461958
AV  - HD9715.U52 -- B53 2010eb 
U1  - 331.6/396073 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - African American construction workers
KW  - African American labor union members
KW  - Construction workers -- Labor unions -- United States
KW  - Affirmative action programs -- United States
KW  - Labor movement -- United States
KW  - Black power -- United States
KW  - Civil rights movements -- United States
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- BLACK POWER AT WORK -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Constructing Black Power -- 1. "Revolution Has Come to Brooklyn": Construction Trades Protests and the Negro Revolt of 1963 -- 2. "The Laboratory of Democracy": Construction Industry Racism in Newark and the Limits of Liberalism -- 3. "Work for Me Also Means Work for the Community I Come From": Black Contractors, Black Capitalism, and Affirmative Action in the Bay Area -- 4. Community Control of Construction, Independent Unionism, and the "Short Black Power Movement" in Detroit -- 5. "The Stone Wall Behind": The Chicago Coalition for United Community Action and Labor's Overseers, 1968-1973 -- 6. "The Blacks Should Not Be Administering the Philadelphia Plan": Nixon, the Hard Hats, and "Voluntary" Affirmative Action -- 7. From Jobs to Power: The United Construction Workers Association and Title VII Community Organizing in the 1970s -- Conclusion: White Male Identity Politics, the Building Trades, and the Future of American Labor -- Notes -- About the Contributors -- Index
N2  - Black Power at Work chronicles the history of direct action campaigns to open up the construction industry to black workers in the 1960s and 1970s, with case studies of Brooklyn, Newark, the Bay Area, Detroit, Chicago, and Seattle
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