Skilled hands, strong spirits
Subtitle: a century of building trades history
By: Grace Palladino
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: AFL-CIO. -- Building and Construction Trades Dept. -- History; Building trades -- Employees -- Labor unions -- United States -- History; Construction workers -- Labor unions -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Skyscrapers, building trades councils, and the rise of the structural building trades; title: Alliance; title: The founding brothers : from the Structural Building Trades Alliance to the Building Trades Department; title: "Sticking apart" : work, jurisdiction, and solidarity; title: The high price of unity : conflict, crisis, and coming together; title: Government matters; title: A New Deal for labor : depression, recovery, and government-labor relations; title: From Pearl Harbor to Denver : the building trades in war and peace; title: The economic power of skill : mechanics, contractors, and civil rights; title: Reorganizing the future; title: From boom to bust : wage spirals, the business roundtable, and open-shop; title: Construction; title: Back to basics : the COMET Program, internal tensions, and the Las Vegas campaign