Skilled Hands, Strong Spirits
Subtitle: A Century of Building Trades History
Publisher: ILR Press
Published: June 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780801474149
Subjects: Trade unions; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; USA; Economic History; Labor & Industrial Relations - Unions; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; United States - 20th Century
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.