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.
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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