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With Our Hands: The Story of Carpenters in Massachusetts: With Our Hands: The Story of Carpenters in Massachusetts

With Our Hands: The Story of Carpenters in Massachusetts
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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Foreword
  6. Contents
  7. Illustrations
  8. Preface
  9. Epigraph
  10. 1. With Our Hands: The World of the Carpenter
  11. 2. Portrait of a Puzzling Industry
  12. 3. From Artisan to Worker
  13. 4. The Eight-Hour Strikes: 1886 and 1890
  14. 5. Union Building
  15. 6. Inside the Union Hall
  16. 7. Birth of the Business Agent
  17. 8. Battling Carpenters: World War I and the 1919 Strike
  18. 9. Cooperatives: Building Without Bosses
  19. 10. The American Plan
  20. 11. Tragic Towns of New England
  21. 12. Work, Not Relief
  22. 13. Jobs, Jobs, and More Jobs
  23. 14. New Tools, New Materials, New Methods
  24. 15. The Prudential Boom and Beyond
  25. 16. The Rise of the Open Shop
  26. 17. An Industry in Transition
  27. 18. Knocking on the Door: Blacks and Women in Construction
  28. 19. Who Will Build the Future?
  29. Notes
  30. Index

With Our Hands

The Story of Carpenters in Massachusetts

Mark Erlich

With the Research Assistance of David Goldberg

Temple University Press

Philadelphia

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