 | Black Power at Work Subjects: Civil rights movements; Black power; Labor movement; Affirmative action programs; Construction workers; African American labor union members.; African American construction workers.; 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. |
