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- Title
Getting In: The Experience of Minority Graduates of the Building Bridges Project Pre-Apprenticeship Class.
- Authors
Worthen, Helena; Haynes, Anthony
- Abstract
The Chicago-area Building Bridges Project is a cooperative effort involving construction trades unions, churches in minority communities, and the Chicago Interfaith Committee. Goals of the project are to increase awareness of union apprenticeship programs in minority communities, broaden access to those programs, and to organize construction work in these same communities. This study focuses on the experience of graduates of the Building Bridges Project pre-apprenticeship class as they apply to apprenticeship programs. It reports the ongoing negotiations among partners in the project as they identify, explain, and, in some cases, address factors that emerge as barriers to access to those programs. It argues that the key factor in the success of the project is that it is guided by the primary goal of organizing.
- Subjects
CHICAGO (Ill.); UNITED States; OCCUPATIONAL training for minorities; CONSTRUCTION workers' labor unions; APPRENTICESHIP programs; LABOR unions
- Publication
Labor Studies Journal, 2003, Vol 28, Issue 1, p31
- ISSN
0160-449X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/lab.2003.0029