Black Power at Work: Community Control, Affirmative Action, and the Construction Industry
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (847 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0801446589 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Valuable Academic Assessments" according to Felix Cabrera. Black Power at Work doesn't follow any sort of narrative structure beyond a semi-steady chronological order of events. Each chapter is written by a different scholar, making the book feel like a series of lectures, and focuses on a different setting and struggle for community control around the backdrop of the civil rights movement. Despite the clunky transitions of chapters, Goldberg and Griffey have organized an important work that addresses critical historical events of the civil rights movement that have been left out of the US master narrative.This history of affirm
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. South. 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. Rosen, University of Illinois at Chicago. 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.Contributors: Erik S. In the process, "community control" of the construction industryespecially government War on Poverty and post-rebellion urban reconstruction projects b
The authors tell varied stories of mass jobs struggles involving working-class African Americans in the North and West that reached back to the early 1960s and into the 1970s. The leaders and members of these militant organizations were, by and large, not from the middle stratum; they were not doctors, lawyers and ministers, but instead rank and file worker activists." Bill Fletcher, Jr., ILR Review (July 2011) @font-face { font-family: "Times New Roman"; p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; table.MsoNormalTable { font-size: 10pt; f