Under Construction offers a unique examination of organization and work in the construction industry. Synthesizing organizational and labor relations orientations, it develops a comprehensive sociological perspective on work relations in construction. Silver examines the effects of local market conditions, employers' demands, and trade union activities on the daily lives of workers—skilled as well as unskilled.
The book also challenges popular myths about construction work and the building trades with analyses of construction sites, hiring practices, and workers' reactions to the conditions of their work. Under Construction powerfully demonstrates the need for new industrial approaches by concluding with a series of practical alternatives to current practices in the industry's housing sector. Preface
1. Introduction: Contracting, Craft, and Control 2. Working at the Construction Site: Autonomy, Management, and Control 3. Trade Unions, Contractors, and Employment 4. Alienation and the Labor Process 5. Crisis in Construction: Toward a Strategy for Overcoming Market Forces in Labor Relations and Housing Production
Appendix A. Research Methodology Appendix B. Glossary of Terms and Variables Appendix C. Survey Instruments Notes Bibliography Index of Proper Names Subject Index
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