The Way We Build: Restoring Dignity to Construction Work

by Mark Erlich

Book 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025208733X
• ISBN13: 9780252087332
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"