Power and Privilege

Power and Privilege
Author: Morgan O. Reynolds
Publisher:
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1984
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

"A Manhattan Institute for Policy Research book."Includes index. Bibliography: p. 276-301.

Estimating Building Costs

Estimating Building Costs
Author: Calin M. Popescu
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 670
Release: 2003-04-22
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0824748549

Companies live or die on the basis of estimating their costs. Preparing estimates and bidding for new jobs is a complex and often costly process. There is no substitute for on the job training -- until now. Drawing on the authors' combined experience of more than 70 years, Estimating Building Costs presents state-of-the-art principles, practices, and techniques for assessing these expenditures that can be applied regardless of changes in the costs of materials, equipment, and labor. The book is an efficient and practical tool for developing contracts or controlling project costs. The authors cover the major components of the direct cost: estimating procedures and cost trends related to materials, construction equipment, and skilled and unskilled labor. They describe various types of building estimates encountered during the lifecycle of a project, as well as the role and accuracy of each. The book provides an overview of the industry, cost indexes in use, approaches to preparing a detailed estimate, and an in-depth description of the organization and function of the estimating group. Including CSI Master Format and UniFormat codes, estimating forms, a list of available estimating software packages, a detailed construction site and investigation report, the book provides a cost estimating methodology that readers can tailor to their own organizational needs.

Brittle Power

Brittle Power
Author: Amory B. Lovins
Publisher:
Total Pages: 520
Release: 1982
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

The CIO's Left-led Unions

The CIO's Left-led Unions
Author: Steven Rosswurm
Publisher:
Total Pages: 270
Release: 1992
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780813517698

The American labor movement seemed poised on the threshold of unparalleled success at the beginning of the post-World War II era. Fourteen million strong in 1946, unions represented 35 percent of non-agricultural workers, and federal power insured collective bargaining rights. The contrast with the pre-war years was strongest for those workers who retained vivid memories of the 1920s and early 1930s. Then, the labor movement lacked government legitimacy, and, at the worst point of the Great Depression, the union movement barely enrolled 5 percent of the non-farm workforce; one out of every four workers lacked a job. Now, the future seemed to hold unlimited possibilities.

American Labor

American Labor
Author: M. Dubofsky
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2016-04-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137044977

This single-volume comprehensive compilation of documents integrates institutional labour history (movements and trade unions) with aspects of social and cultural history, as well as charting changes in trade union and managerial practices, and integrating the economics and politics of labour history. It includes documents that treat household relations as well as industrial relations; women as domestic workers and unpaid household labour as well as factory workers; and African American, Hispanic American (especially Mexican and Mexican American), and Asian workers as well as white workers. American Labor offers readers an insight into the full spectrum historically of workers, their daily lives, and the movements that they created.