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Black Power at Work chronicles the history of direct action campaigns to open up the construction industry to black workers in the 1960's and 1970's. 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 1960's and early 1970's, 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.

Civil rights movements --- Black power --- Labor movement --- Affirmative action programs --- Construction workers --- African American labor union members. --- African American construction workers. --- Labor unions --- Afro-American construction workers --- Construction workers, African American --- African American members of labor unions --- Afro-American labor union members --- Labor union members, African American --- Labor union members --- Construction industry --- Labor and laboring classes --- Social movements --- African Americans --- African American membership --- Employees --- Civil rights --- Economic conditions --- African American construction workers --- African American labor union members --- E-books

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Focusing on the struggle of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP), to form a union in Chicago (HQ of the Pullman Company), this work charts the quest of African Americans for civil rights in the inter-war period. New ground was broken by backing up demands with collective action.

Pullman porters --- African American labor union members --- Discrimination in employment --- Race discrimination --- Bias, Job --- Employment discrimination --- Equal employment opportunity --- Equal opportunity in employment --- Fair employment practice --- Job bias --- Job discrimination --- Race discrimination in employment --- Employment (Economic theory) --- Affirmative action programs --- African American members of labor unions --- Afro-American labor union members --- Labor union members, African American --- Labor unions --- Labor union members --- Porters, Pullman --- Train attendants --- History. --- Political activity --- African American membership

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Lisa Phillips presents a distinctive study of District 65 and its efforts to secure economic equality for minority workers in sales and processing jobs in small, low-end shops and warehouses throughout the city. Phillips shows how organizers fought tirelessly to achieve better hours and higher wages for unskilled, unrepresented workers and to re-value their work, the result of an economy inclining toward fewer manufacturing jobs and more low wage service and processing jobs.

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