Skilled Hands, Strong Spirits : : A Century of Building Trades History / / Grace Palladino.
Skilled Hands, Strong Spirits follows the history of the Building and Construction Trades Department from the emergence of building trades councils in the age of the skyscraper; through treacherous fights over jurisdiction as new building materials and methods of work evolved; and through numerous D...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 15 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Affiliates of the Building and Construction Trades Department, 2004
- Introduction: The Ties That Bind
- PART ONE. Erecting the Structure
- 1. Skyscrapers, Building Trades Councils, and the Rise of the Structural Building Trades Alliance
- 2. The Founding Brothers: From the Structural Building Trades Alliance to the Building Trades Department
- 3. “Sticking Apart”: Work, Jurisdiction, and Solidarity
- 4. The High Price of Unity: Conflict, Crisis, and Coming Together
- PART TWO. Government Matters
- 5. A New Deal for Labor: Depression, Recovery, and Government- Labor Relations
- 6. From Pearl Harbor to Denver: The Building Trades in War and Peace
- 7. The Economic Power of Skill: Mechanics, Contractors, and Civil Rights
- PART THREE. Reorganizing the Future
- 8. From Boom to Bust: Wage Spirals, the Business Roundtable, and Open-Shop Construction
- 9. Back to Basics: The COMET Program, Internal Tensions, and the Las Vegas Campaign
- Epilogue: Challenge and Change
- Notes
- Index