TY  - GEN
T1  - The way we build : restoring dignity to construction work
T2  - Working class in American history.
A1  - Erlich, Mark, 1949-
LA  - English
PP  - Urbana
PB  - University of Illinois Press
YR  - 2023
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1369676610
AB  - "The construction trades once provided unionized craftsmen a route to the middle class and a sense of pride and dignity often denied other blue-collar workers. Today, union members still earn wages and benefits that compare favorably to those of college graduates. But as union strength has declined over the last fifty years, a growing non-union sector offers lower compensation and more hazardous conditions, undermining the earlier tradition of upward mobility. Revitalization of the industry depends on unions shedding past racial and gender discriminatory practices, embracing organizing, diversity, and the new immigrant workforce, and preparing for technological changes. Mark Erlich blends long-view history with his personal experience inside the building trades to explain one of our economy's least understood sectors. Erlich's multifaceted account includes the dynamics of the industry, the backdrop of union policies, and powerful stories of everyday life inside the trades. He offers a much-needed overview of construction's past and present while exploring roads to the future"--
OP  - 140
CN  - HD9715.U52 E75 2023
SN  - 0252054571
SN  - 9780252054570
SN  - 9780252045196
SN  - 9780252087332
KW  - Construction industry : United States.
KW  - Labor unions : United States.
KW  - Building trades : United States.
KW  - Construction : Industrie : États-Unis.
KW  - Métiers de la construction : États-Unis.
KW  - Industries.
KW  - 20th Century.
KW  - United States.
KW  - HISTORY.
KW  - Labor & Industrial Relations.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE.
KW  - Building trades
KW  - Construction industry
KW  - Labor unions
KW  - United States
KW  - Industry & industrial studies.
KW  - Industry.
ER  -