Skilled hands, strong spirits a century of building trades history / Grace Palladino.

Author/creator Palladino, Grace
Format Book
Publication InfoIthaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2005.
Descriptionxii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [231]-264) and index.
LCCN 2004017450
ISBN0801443202 (cloth : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks HD6515.B9 P35 2005 ✔ Available Place Hold