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Black Power at Work : Community Control, Affirmative Action, and the Construction Industry.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (278 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801461958
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Black Power at WorkDDC classification:
  • 331.6/396073
LOC classification:
  • HD9715.U52 -- B53 2010eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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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