The Way We Build: Restoring Dignity to Construction Work Erlich Mark
The Way We Build: Restoring Dignity to Construction Work Erlich Mark The construction trades once provided unionized craftsmen a route to the middle class and a sense of pride and dignity often…
Specifikacia The Way We Build: Restoring Dignity to Construction Work Erlich Mark
The Way We Build: Restoring Dignity to Construction Work Erlich Mark
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. 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. Today, union members still earn wages and benefits that compare favorably to those of college graduates.
Erlich's multifaceted account includes the dynamics of the 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.
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