Table of Contents: Black power at work

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors:	Goldberg, David A., 1972-, Griffey, Trevor, 1975-
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Ithaca, N.Y. : ILR Press/Cornell University Press, c2010.
Subjects:	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.
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Table of 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.