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Book Chapter
Building a High Road Future
2023
Overview
For the first three-quarters of the twentieth century—particularly in the three decades after World War II—U.S. construction workers were among the best paid blue-collar workers in the world. A career in construction was a pathway to the middle class for those “labor aristocrats.” During the last fifty years, that era has been replaced by a segmented new equilibrium. Aggregate real wages for all workers have declined, but not evenly across the board. Union trades workers make up a smaller percentage of the total construction workforce, but they continue to earn above average wages and benefits. Some non-union contractors
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Subject
ISBN
025204519X, 9780252045196, 025208733X, 9780252087332
