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9780801474316: Black Power at Work: Community Control, Affirmative Action, and the Construction Industry
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ISBN 10: 0801474310 ISBN 13: 9780801474316
Editorial: ILR Press, 2010

Sinopsis

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 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 1960s and early 1970s, 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.

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David Goldberg is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Wayne State University. Trevor Griffey is a PhD candidate in U.S. History at the University of Washington.

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Editorial
ILR Press
Año de publicación
2010
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0801474310
ISBN 13 
9780801474316
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Número de páginas
278
Editor
Goldberg David
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