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Product details:
- Edition number First Edition
- Publisher University of Illinois Press
- Date of Publication 18 July 2023
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9780252087332
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages144 pages
- Size 229x152x15 mm
- Weight 254 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 14 black & white photographs 429
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Short description:
Mark Erlich blends long-view history with his personal experience inside the building trades to explain one of our economy---s least understood sectors. Erlich---s multifaceted account includes the dynamics of the construction industry, the backdrop of union policies, and powerful stories of everyday life inside the trades. He offers a much-needed overview of construction---s past and present while exploring roads to the future.
MoreLong description:
The construction trades once provided unionized craftsmen a route to the middle class and a sense of pride and dignity often denied other blue-collar workers. Today, union members still earn wages and benefits that compare favorably to those of college graduates. But as union strength has declined over the last fifty years, a growing non-union sector offers lower compensation and more hazardous conditions, undermining the earlier tradition of upward mobility. Revitalization of the industry depends on unions shedding past racial and gender discriminatory practices, embracing organizing, diversity, and the new immigrant workforce, and preparing for technological changes.
Mark Erlich blends long-view history with his personal experience inside the building trades to explain one of our economy’s least understood sectors. Erlich’s multifaceted account includes the dynamics of the industry, the backdrop of union policies, and powerful stories of everyday life inside the trades. He offers a much-needed overview of construction’s past and present while exploring roads to the future.
MoreTable of Contents:
Acknowledgments
- A Tale of Two Cities
- Snapshot of an Industry
- The Heavy Hand of the Business Roundtable
- Misclassification as a Business Model
- Immigration, Payroll Fraud, and the Underground Economy
- Technology and the Future of Construction Work
- Building Under a Roof
- Many Rivers to Cross: Organizing and Diversity
- Regulators and the Challenge of Enforcement
- Restoring a Pathway to the Middle Class
- Building a High Road Future
Notes
Index
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