1. Skyscrapers, Building Trades Councils, and the Rise of the Structural Building Trades Alliance

Construction workers, their unions, and the construction industry face important challenges in addressing substance use disorders and mental health issues. To examine these issues further, we spoke with Chris Trahan Cain, Executive Director of CPWR—The Center for Construction Research and Training, a nonprofit organization that is affiliated with North America’s Building Trades Unions and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. As the chair of the North America’s Building Trades Unions opioid task force, she has been working with construction unions and employers to develop primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention methods to help combat the opioid epidemic, other substance use disorders and to improve worker mental health.

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Industrial Relations in the San Francisco Building Trades

Southern Economic Journal ◽

10.2307/1052746 ◽

1937 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 104

Author(s):

Burton R. Morley ◽

Frederick L. Ryan

Keyword(s):

San Francisco ◽

Industrial Relations ◽

Building Trades

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Heavy and Light/Moderate Smoking Among Building Trades Construction Workers

Public Health Nursing ◽

10.1111/j.1525-1446.2012.01041.x ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 30 (2) ◽

pp. 128-139 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Dal Lae Chin ◽

OiSaeng Hong ◽

Marion Gillen ◽

Michael N. Bates ◽

Cassandra A. Okechukwu

Keyword(s):

Construction Workers ◽

Building Trades

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The Car, the Hammer and the Cables under the Tables

European Journal of Sociology ◽

10.1017/s0003975617000145 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 58 (2) ◽

pp. 265-293 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Joëlle Moret ◽

Kerstin Dümmler ◽

Janine Dahinden

Keyword(s):

Social Inequalities ◽

Identity Work ◽

Institutional Setting ◽

Mental Work ◽

Social Hierarchies ◽

Building Trades ◽

Relational Perspective ◽

Specific Setting ◽

Educational Path

AbstractBased on ethnographic material, this article explores how three groups of apprentices negotiate masculinities in the specific setting of a male-dominated vocational school in Switzerland dedicated to the building trades. We use an intersectional and relational perspective to highlight how the institutional setting of the school—mirroring wider social hierarchies—influences these young men’s identity work. The apprentices use three discursive dichotomies: manual vs. mental work; proud heterosexuality vs. homosexuality; and adulthood vs. childhood. However, the three different groups employ the dichotomies differently depending on their position in the school’s internal hierarchies, based on their educational path, the trade they are learning and the corresponding prestige. The article sheds light on the micro-processes through which existing hierarchies are internalised within an institution. It further discusses how the school’s internal differentiations and the staff’s discourses and behaviours contribute to the (re)production of specific classed masculinities, critically assessing the role of the Swiss educational system in the reproduction of social inequalities.

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