Skilled hands, strong spirits : a century of building trades history /
Skilled Hands, Strong Spirits follows the history of the Building and Construction Trades Department from the emergence of building trades councils in the age of the skyscraper; through treacherous fights over jurisdiction as new building materials and methods of work evolved; and through numerous D...
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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press
2005.
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv5rdw3c |
Sommario:
- Skyscrapers, building trades councils, and the rise of the structural building trades
- Alliance
- The founding brothers : from the Structural Building Trades Alliance to the Building Trades Department
- "Sticking apart" : work, jurisdiction, and solidarity
- The high price of unity : conflict, crisis, and coming together
- Government matters
- A New Deal for labor : depression, recovery, and government-labor relations
- From Pearl Harbor to Denver : the building trades in war and peace
- The economic power of skill : mechanics, contractors, and civil rights
- Reorganizing the future
- From boom to bust : wage spirals, the business roundtable, and open-shop
- Construction
- Back to basics : the COMET Program, internal tensions, and the Las Vegas campaign.