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Skilled hands, strong spirits : a century of building trades history / Grace Palladino.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Palladino, Grace.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- AFL-CIO. Building and Construction Trades Department--History.
- AFL-CIO.
- AFL-CIO. Building and Construction Trades Department.
- Building trades--Employees--Labor unions--United States--History.
- Building trades.
- Construction workers--Labor unions--United States--History.
- Construction workers.
- Construction workers--Labor unions.
- History.
- Building trades--Employees--Labor unions.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2005.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-264) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0801443202
- OCLC:
- 56014545
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