An edition of Black power at work (2010)

Black power at work

community control, affirmative action, and the construction industry

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An edition of Black power at work (2010)

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community control, affirmative action, and the construction industry

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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Ithaca

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
331.6/396073
Library of Congress
HD9715.U52 B53 2010, HD9715.U52B53 2010

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Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24579778M
Internet Archive
blackpoweratwork0000unse
ISBN 13
9780801446580, 9780801474316
LCCN
2010011806
OCLC/WorldCat
606052504

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