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Psychosocial Capacity Building in New York: Building Resiliency with Construction Workers Assigned to Ground Zero after 9/11 (with Joshua Miller and K. C. Wagner), Articles & Chapters (2010)

[Excerpt] Psychosocial capacity building, which is a more common approach in response to disasters outside...

 

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Serving the Public Interest: Preventing Double-Breasting in the Construction Industry, Articles & Chapters (2007)

Excerpt] But the immediate question I am addressing is how the practice of double-breasting undermines...

 

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ILR Impact Brief - Transcending Free Market Unionism: A New Alliance for New York State Unions, Policy & Issue Briefs (2007)

[Excerpt] In the few years since the AFL-CIO consolidated 25 of the 31 central labor...

 

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Construction or De-construction? The Road to Revival in the Building Trades, Articles & Chapters (2007)

[Excerpt] The building and construction trades have historically been one of the most stable and...

 

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A New Alliance in New York State: A Progress Report on the Labor Movement’s Restructuring, Capacity Building, and Programmatic Work, Articles & Chapters (2007)

[Excerpt] The labor movement in New York State (NYS) has undergone a dramatic restructuring that...

 

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Letter to the Editor, New Labor Forum, Articles & Chapters (2007)

[Excerpt] Bill Fletcher and Rick Hurd have shined a critical light on a vital issue...

 

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Standing at a Crossroads: The Building Trades in the Twenty-First Century (with Mark Erlich), Articles & Chapters (2005)

American building trades unions have historically played a critical and stabilizing role in the nation’s...

 

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Building and Construction Trades Unions: Are They Built to Win?, Articles & Chapters (2004)

[Excerpt] The evidence of labor's declining power in the economic and political arenas is increasingly...

 

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Heroes of New York, Articles & Chapters (2002)
 

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Fanning the Flames (After Lighting the Spark): Multi-Trade COMET Programs (with Adam Pagnucco and Steve Rockafellow), Articles & Chapters (1998)

[Excerpt] The COMET (Construction Organizing Membership Education Training) is an educational program utilized by building...

 

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Ask the Jobless If Marx Is Relevant, Articles & Chapters (1998)
 

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Construction Organizing: A Case Study of Success (with Brian Condit, Tom Davis, and Fred Kotler), Articles & Chapters (1998)

[Excerpt] This chapter examines how IBEW Local 611, based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, reversed its...

 

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Why Not Unions to Combat Sweatshops?, Articles & Chapters (1995)
 

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Lighting the Spark: COMET Program Mobilizes the Ranks for Construction Organizing, Articles & Chapters (1995)

This article describes the COMET (Construction Organizing Membership Education Training) program. Faced with declining membership...

 

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Steward Training in the Construction Industry: The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America Faces the Challenge, Articles & Chapters (1993)

[Excerpt] This article examines the development and delivery of the Carpenters union national construction steward...

 

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Bottom-Up Organizing in the Trades: An Interview with Mike Lucas, IBEW Director of Organizing, Articles & Chapters (1988)

[Excerpt] Like the bottom-up organizers who built the IBEW 100 years ago by traveling from...