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The Way We Build
2023
Overview
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.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Subject
ISBN
025204519X, 9780252045196, 9780252054570, 0252054571, 025208733X, 9780252087332
