 | Skilled Hands, Strong Spirits: A Century of Building Trades History Subjects: Building trades -- Employees -- Labor unions -- United States -- History; Construction workers -- Labor unions -- United States -- History; AFL-CIO. Building and Construction Trades Dept -- History; 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... Grace Palladino is the Codirector of The Samuel Gompers Papers at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is also the author of Teenagers: An American History ; Dreams of Dignity, Workers of Vision: A History of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers ; and Another Civil War: Labor, Capital, and the State in the Anthracite Regions of Pennsylvania . |
