Black Power at Work

Black Power at Work265 pages paperback 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

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Both authors have extensive experience in the construction field

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