Black power at work
Subtitle: community control, affirmative action, and the construction industry
By: edited by David Goldberg and Trevor Griffey
Publisher: ILR Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780801446580; 9780801474316
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : constructing black power / David Goldberg and Trevor Griffey; title: "Revolution has come to Brooklyn" : construction trades protests and the Negro revolt of 1963 / Brian Purnell; title: "The laboratory of democracy" : construction industry racism in Newark and the limits of liberalism / Julia Rabig; title: "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; title: Community control of construction, independent unionism, and the "short black power movement" in Detroit / David Goldberg; title: "The stone wall behind" : Chicago's Coalition for United Community Action and labor's overseers, 1968-1973 / Erik Gellman; title: "The blacks should not be administering the Philadelphia plan" : Nixon, the hard hats, and "voluntary" affirmative action / Trevor Griffey; title: From jobs to power : the United Construction Workers and Title VII community organizing in the 1970s / Trevor Griffey; title: Conclusion : white male identity politics, the building trades, and the future of American labor / David Goldberg and Trevor Griffey.