Construction or De-Construction?: The Road to Revival in the Building Trades

A failure to recognize and respond to this reality by deploying regional and national strategies supported by new union structures less deferential to local unions has contributed to the decline of construction unionism.7 The participation of multinational building firms-like the Swedish-based Skans...

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Published inNew labor forum Vol. 16; no. 2; pp. 46 - 58
Main Author Grabelsky, Jeff
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Taylor & Francis 01.04.2007
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects
Anti inflation
Building trades
Buildings
Collective bargaining
Construction industries
Construction industry
Industrial unions
Ironworking
Labor movements
Labor supply
Labor unionization
Labor unions
Leadership
Union organizing
Workforce
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Summary:A failure to recognize and respond to this reality by deploying regional and national strategies supported by new union structures less deferential to local unions has contributed to the decline of construction unionism.7 The participation of multinational building firms-like the Swedish-based Skanska or the German-based Hochtief (through its North American subsidiary, Turner Construction)is not the only or even most significant impact of globalization on the U.S. construction industry. There is a growing sense of frustration among construction unionists about the inadequacy of their response to the crisis they face, and a growing sense of frustration among unorganized construction workers, especially immigrants, about the conditions to which they are subjected in the nonunion sectors of the industry.
ISSN:1095-7960
1557-2978
DOI:10.1080/10957960701279207