Black power at work community control, affirmative action, and the construction industry /
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
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c2010.
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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.