Black Power at Work: Community Control, Affirmative Action, and the Construction Industry
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| Rating | : | 4.20 (921 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0801474310 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. 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. Black Power at Work chronicl
Black Power at Work expands the regional scope and temporal reach of civil rights scholarship while raising timely questions about the kinds of coalitions needed for economic justice to prevail in America."Nancy MacLean, author of Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace"Black Power activists did not only wear dashikis or berets but also wore overalls and hardhats. The politics of black power come to life not in abstract manifestos but in the daily grind to win concrete economic opportunity for people and communities in the racially segregated postwar metropolis."Robert Self, Brown University" A richly detailed, multicity, and broadly scoped exploration of black male laborers' quests for construction jobs in the wake of interminable racism,
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 backdrop of the civil rights movement. Despite the clunky transitio