| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.5

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.5 | The History Cooperative

Grace Palladino. Skilled Hands, Strong Spirits: A Century of Building Trades History. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 274. $35.00.
Considering their importance in U.S. labor history, building trades unions have received surprisingly little recent attention from scholars. While many smaller, shorter-lived, or less influential sectors of the labor movement have continued to attract scholarly attention, the stolid building trades unions have gone almost unstudied by this generation. As a result, we have a distressingly distorted labor historiography that slights the one sector of American trade unionism that retained power almost continuously from the late nineteenth century to the late twentieth, as industrial unionism rose and declined and more radical labor movements flamed out.	1
Grace Palladino has done more to rectify this scholarly neglect than any historian writing today. In this well-researched volume Palladino provides a framework for understanding building trades unionism by tracing the history of the American Federation of Labor–Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) Building and Construction Trades Department from its origins in the late nineteenth century to its struggle to revive and strengthen unionism on construction sites a century later.	. . .

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