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Black power at work community control, affirmative action, and the construction industry
Title
Black power at work [electronic resource] : community control, affirmative action, and the construction industry / edited by David Goldberg and Trevor Griffey.
ISBN
9780801461958
0801446589 (alk. paper)
0801474310 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780801446580 (alk. paper)
9780801474316 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Ithaca, N.Y. : ILR Press/Cornell University Press, c2010. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 265 p. )
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Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
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Variant and related titles
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Project MUSE - UPCC Archive American Studies Supplement II.
Project MUSE - UPCC Archive Complete Supplement III.
Project MUSE - UPCC Archive Political Science and Policy Studies Supplement III.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 11, 2015
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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