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 Department campaigns
to improve safety standards, work with contractors to promote
unionized construction, and forge a sense of industrial unity among
its fifteen (and at times nineteen) autonomous and highly diverse
affiliates.
Arranged chronologically, Skilled Hands, Strong Spirits is based
on archival research in Department, AFL-CIO, and U.S. government
records as well as numerous union journals, the local and national
press, and interviews with former Department officers. Grace
Palladino makes the history of the building trades come alive. By
investigating the sources of conflict and unity within the Building
and Construction Trades Department over time, and demonstrating how
building trades unions dealt with problems and opportunities in the
past, she provides a historical context for the current generation
of workers and leaders as they devise new strategies to suit their
current situation.
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