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Black Power at Work: Community Control, Affirmative Action, and the Construction Industry

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Black Power at Work chronicles the history of direct action campaigns to open up the construction industry to black workers Within 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 Within the construction industry shaped the emergence of Black Power politics out of doors the U.S. South. Within the process, “community keep watch over” of the construction industry―especially government War on Poverty and post-rebel 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 contemporary debates about job training and placement for unemployed, underemployed, and underrepresented workers. Politicians responded to Black Power protests at federal construction projects by creating brand new affirmative action and minority set-aside programs Within the late 1960s and early 1970s, but these programs relied on “voluntary” compliance by contractors and unions, government enforcement used to be inadequate, and so 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 a part of the struggle for racial justice and labor union reform in the USA.

Contributors: Erik S. Gellman, Roosevelt University; David Goldberg, Wayne State University; Trevor Griffey, University of Washington; Brian Purnell, Fordham University; Julia Rabig, Boston University; John J. Rosen, University of Illinois at Chicago

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