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Skilled hands, strong spirits : a century of building trades history / Grace Palladino

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Palladino, Grace
Published
Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2005.
Physical Description
xii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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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.
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ISBN
0801443202 (cloth : alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-264) and index.
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