Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. List of Abbreviations xi
5. Affiliates of the Building and Construction Trades Department, 2004 xiii
6. Introduction: The Ties That Bind 1
7. PART ONE. Erecting the Structure
8. 1. Skyscrapers, Building Trades Councils, and the Rise of the Structural Building Trades Alliance 13
9. 2. The Founding Brothers: From the Structural Building Trades Alliance to the Building Trades Department 27
10. 3. “Sticking Apart”: Work, Jurisdiction, and Solidarity 46
11. 4. The High Price of Unity: Conflict, Crisis, and Coming Together 67
12. PART TWO. Government Matters
13. 5. A New Deal for Labor: Depression, Recovery, and Government- Labor Relations 91
14. 6. From Pearl Harbor to Denver: The Building Trades in War and Peace 113
15. 7. The Economic Power of Skill: Mechanics, Contractors, and Civil Rights 140
16. PART THREE. Reorganizing the Future
17. 8. From Boom to Bust: Wage Spirals, the Business Roundtable, and Open-Shop Construction 169
18. 9. Back to Basics: The COMET Program, Internal Tensions, and the Las Vegas Campaign 197
19. Epilogue: Challenge and Change 225
20. Notes 231
21. Index 265