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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Huvudupphovsman: Palladino, Grace
Materialtyp: Licensed eBooks
Språk:engelska
Publicerad: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press 2005.
Länkar:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv5rdw3c
Innehållsförteckning:
  • 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.