LEADER 04898nam 22007095 450 001 9910456574403321 005 20210206000406.0 010 $a0-8014-6195-2 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801461958 035 $a(CKB)2550000000036243 035 $a(EBL)3138113 035 $a(OCoLC)732957074 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000534533 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11364398 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000534533 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10518882 035 $a(PQKB)11179107 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138113 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28793 035 $a(DE-B1597)515608 035 $a(OCoLC)1083625263 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801461958 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000036243 100 $a20190920d2011 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aBlack Power at Work $eCommunity Control, Affirmative Action, and the Construction Industry /$fDavid Goldberg, Trevor Griffey 210 1$aIthaca, NY :$cCornell University Press,$d[2011] 210 4$dİ2011 215 $a1 online resource (277 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8014-4658-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: Constructing Black Power --$t1. "Revolution Has Come to Brooklyn": Construction Trades Protests and the Negro Revolt of 1963 /$rPurnell, Brian --$t2. "The Laboratory of Democracy": Construction Industry Racism in Newark and the Limits of Liberalism /$rRabig, Julia --$t3. "Work for Me Also Means Work for the Community I Come From": Black Contractors, Black Capitalism, and Affirmative Action in the Bay Area /$rRosen, John J. --$t4. Community Control of Construction, Independent Unionism, and the "Short Black Power Movement" in Detroit /$rGoldberg, David --$t5. "The Stone Wall Behind": The Chicago Coalition for United Community Action and Labor's Overseers, 1968-1973 /$rGellman, Erik S. --$t6. "The Blacks Should Not Be Administering the Philadelphia Plan": Nixon, the Hard Hats, and "Voluntary" Affirmative Action /$rGriffey, Trevor --$t7. From Jobs to Power: The United Construction Workers Association and Title VII Community Organizing in the 1970's /$rGriffey, Trevor --$tConclusion: White Male Identity Politics, the Building Trades, and the Future of American Labor /$rGoldberg, David / Griffey, Trevor --$tNotes --$tAbout the Contributors --$tIndex 330 $aBlack Power at Work chronicles the history of direct action campaigns to open up the construction industry to black workers in the 1960's and 1970's. The book's case studies of local movements in Brooklyn, Newark, the Bay Area, Detroit, Chicago, and Seattle show how struggles against racism in the construction industry shaped the emergence of Black Power politics outside the U.S. South. In the process, "community control" of the construction industry-especially government War on Poverty and post-rebellion urban reconstruction projects- became central to community organizing for black economic self-determination and political autonomy. The history of Black Power's community organizing tradition shines a light on more recent debates about job training and placement for unemployed, underemployed, and underrepresented workers. Politicians responded to Black Power protests at federal construction projects by creating modern affirmative action and minority set-aside programs in the late 1960's and early 1970's, but these programs relied on "voluntary" compliance by contractors and unions, government enforcement was inadequate, and they were not connected to jobs programs. Forty years later, the struggle to have construction jobs serve as a pathway out of poverty for inner city residents remains an unfinished part of the struggle for racial justice and labor union reform in the United States. 606 $aCivil rights movements$zUnited States 606 $aBlack power$zUnited States 606 $aLabor movement$zUnited States 606 $aAffirmative action programs$zUnited States 606 $aConstruction workers$xLabor unions$zUnited States 606 $aAfrican American labor union members 606 $aAfrican American construction workers 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCivil rights movements 615 0$aBlack power 615 0$aLabor movement 615 0$aAffirmative action programs 615 0$aConstruction workers$xLabor unions 615 0$aAfrican American labor union members. 615 0$aAfrican American construction workers. 676 $a331.6396073 702 $aGoldberg$b David 702 $aGriffey$b Trevor 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456574403321 996 $aBlack Power at Work$92486285 997 $aUNINA