| Description |
xii, 274 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-264) and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Building trades -- Employees -- Labor unions -- United States -- History.
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Building trades -- Employees -- Labor unions. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Construction workers -- Labor unions -- United States -- History.
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Construction workers -- Labor unions. |
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AFL-CIO. Building and Construction Trades Department -- History.
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AFL-CIO. Building and Construction Trades Department. |
| ISBN |
0801443202 cloth alkaline paper |
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