Black power at work : community control, affirmative action, and the construction industry /

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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. The book's case studies of local movements in Brooklyn, Newark, the Bay Area, Detroit, Chicago, and Seattle show how struggles against racism in th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Goldberg, David A., 1972-, Griffey, Trevor, 1975-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : ILR Press/Cornell University Press, 2010.
Temas:
African American construction workers.
African American labor union members.
Construction workers > Labor unions > United States.
Affirmative action programs > United States.
Labor movement > United States.
Black power > United States.
Civil rights movements > United States.
Ouvriers de la construction noirs américains.
Syndiqués noirs américains.
Ouvriers de la construction > Syndicats > États-Unis.
Programmes d'action positive > États-Unis.
Mouvement ouvrier > États-Unis.
Black power > États-Unis.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Affirmative action programs.
Black power.
Civil rights movements.
Construction workers > Labor unions.
Labor movement.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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