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