Skilled Hands, Strong Spirits
Subtitle: A Century Of Building Trades History
Publisher: ILR Press
Published: January 5, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780801443206
Subjects: Trade unions; Politics/International Relations; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Construction workers; United States - 20th Century; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; USA; Labor & Industrial Relations - Unions; Economic History; Building trades; United States; AFL-CIO.; Building and Construction Trades Dept.; Employees; History; Labor unions
First sentence: When Chicago's Home Insurance Building opened for business in the fall of 1885, there were no fireworks, no parades, not even a newspaper headline to mark the occasion.