Black Power at Work: Community Control, Affirmative Action, and the Construction Industry
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (767 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0801446589 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. 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. Rosen, University of Illinois at Chicago. In the process, "community control" of the construction industryespecially 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. Gellman, Roosevelt University; David Goldberg, Wayne State University; Trevor Griffey, University of Washington; Brian Purnell, Fordham University; Julia Rabig, Boston University; John J. Politicians responded to Black Power protests at federal construction projects by creating modern affirmative
Valuable Academic Assessments 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 backd
Williams, author of the award-winning The Politics of Public Housing: Black Women’s Struggles against Urban Inequality"This book's provocative chapters refute the myth of a sharp divide between civil rights and Black Power. This collection forcefully reshapes our understanding of labor politics and culture in the Black Power era and its continuing effects today."Rhonda Y. This original collection of essays opens the way for a reappraisal of Black Power politics from the perspective of the ordinary workers whose struggles for justice transformed the American workplace. The authors direct our attention to the everyday activism around dignity, representation, and economic empowerment in one of America's most important industries."Thomas J. "Black Power at Work is an invaluable resource. It is a powerful examination of a social movement that has often been overlooked due to a class bias on