Black power at work community control, affirmative action, and the construction industry - Goldberg, David A., 1972-; Griffey, Trevor, 1975-; ebrary, Inc. (Ithaca, N.Y. : ILR Press/Cornell University Press, 2010)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: 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; Electronic books