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

Contents 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 J. 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 S. 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 Association and Title VII community organizing in the 1970s / Trevor Griffey -- White male identity politics, the building trades, and the future of American labor / David Goldberg and Trevor Griffey.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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ISBN0801446589 (alk. paper)
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