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Labor History Volume 46, 2005 - Issue 4: The Building Trades
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Standing at a crossroads: the building trades in the twenty-first century

Mark ErlichCorrespondence[email protected]
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Jeff GrabelskyView further author information
Pages 421-445 | Published online: 18 Aug 2006

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