Download Front Matter (614 KB)

Download Part I. Military-Industrial Prologue (320 KB)

Download 1. The Vietnam War and the Labor Market: The Johnson Administration (939 KB)

Download 2. What Did Unions Know About the Open-Shop Threat and When Did They Know It? (453 KB)

Download Part II. 3. The Press's Production of Public Perceptions of Rapacious Construction Unions and Workers (557 KB)

Download 4. Reality: Wages and Unemployment (1.3 MB)

Download 5. Sources of Power of Militant Business Unionism (1.8 MB)

Download Part III. 6. Construction Employer Organizations (1.4 MB)

Download 7. Industrial-Capitalist Customers’ Counterattack—The Business Roundtable (1.8 MB)

Download Part IV. 8. The Nixon Administration's Early Initiatives to Regulate the Construction Industry (410 KB)

Download 9. Fighting Racist Unions' Militance by Fighting Race Discrimination (953 KB)

Download 10. Operation Breakthrough: Industrialized Housing and the Threat of Vertical Integration (558 KB)

Download 11. Construction Workers' Counter-Demonstrations Supporting the U.S. Invasion of Cambodia and Neutralizing the Nixon Administration: The End of the '60s (576 KB)

Download 12. Multi-Employer and Regional Bargaining (647 KB)

Download 13. The Nixon Administration's Wage Controls (925 KB)

Download Part V. 14. The Unions' Failure to Stave Off the Open Shop Legislatively During the Ford Interregnum (595 KB)

Download 15. Unions and the Anti-Union Movement (1.9 MB)

Download 16. Cycles of Open-Shop Drives (764 KB)

Download Appendix: War and Construction Wages, A Note on Sources, Index (761 KB)