Grace Palladino is Codirector of The Samuel Gompers Papers at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Acknowledgments
ix
List of Abbreviations
xi
Affiliates of the Building and Construction Trades Department, 2004
xiii
Introduction: The Ties That Bind
1
(12)
PART ONE Erecting the Structure
Skyscrapers, Building Trades Councils, and the Rise of the Structural Building Trades Alliance
13
(14)
The Founding Brothers: From the Structural Building Trades Alliance to the Building Trades Department
27
(19)
``Sticking Apart'': Work, Jurisdiction, and Solidarity
46
(21)
The High Price of Unity: Conflict, Crisis, and Coming Together
67
(24)
PART TWO Government Matters
A New Deal for Labor: Depression, Recovery, and Government-Labor Relations
91
(22)
From Pearl Harbor to Denver: The Building Trades in War and Peace
113
(27)
The Economic Power of Skill: Mechanics, Contractors, and Civil Rights
140
(29)
PART THREE Reorganizing the Future
From Boom to Bust: Wage Spirals, the Business Roundtable, and Open-Shop Construction
169
(28)
Back to Basics: The COMET Program, Internal Tensions, and the Las Vegas Campaign
197
(28)
Epilogue: Challenge and Change
225
(6)
Notes
231
(34)
Index
265
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