 | Black Power at Work: Community Control, Affirmative Action, and the Construction Industry Subjects: African American construction workers; African American labor union members; Construction workers -- Labor unions -- United States; Affirmative action programs -- United States; Labor movement -- United States; Black power -- United States; Civil rights m; 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, with case studies of Brooklyn, Newark, the Bay Area, Detroit, Chicago, and Seattle. David Goldberg is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Wayne State University. Trevor Griffey is a PhD candidate in U.S. History at the University of Washington. |
