Skilled hands, strong spirits : a century of building trades history / Grace Palladino.
Palladino, Grace.
2005
HD6515.B9 P35 2005 (Mapit)
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Title
Skilled hands, strong spirits : a century of building trades history / Grace Palladino.
Author
Palladino, Grace.
ISBN
0801443202 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, c2005.
Language
English
Description
xii, 274 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
HD6515.B9 P35 2005
Dewey Decimal Classification
331.88/124/0973
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-264) and index.
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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.

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