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• Building for Tomorrow: Global Enterprise and the U.S. Construction Industry (1988), by National Research Council Building Research Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Southwest Contractor and Manufacturer (partial serial archives)

• Southwest Contractor and Manufacturer (partial serial archives)

• The Builders' History (London: Pub. for the National Federation of Building Trade Operatives by the Labour Publishing Company Ltd., ca. 1923), by Raymond Postgate
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• With Our Hands: The Story of Carpenters in Massachusetts (originally published 1986; this edition Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018), by Mark Erlich, contrib. by David Goldberg and Miriam Frank (multiple formats with commentary at Temple)

• The Carpenter (partial serial archives)

• The Electrical Worker, by International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (partial serial archives)

• Plumbers, Gas and Steam Fitters Journal (partial serial archives)

• Building Towers, Cheating Workers: Exploitation of Migrant Construction Workers in Dubai (New York: Human Rights Watch, 2006), by Hadi Ghaemi (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• Adam Bede, by George Eliot (Gutenberg text)
• Adam Bede (New York: J. B. Alden, 1884), by George Eliot (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Annals of the Worshipful Company of Joiners of the City of London: Extracted From Original Documents, Minute Books, and Renter Warden's Accounts, Etc., From A.D. 1237-1850, Together With a Chronological List of the Feoffees of the Company from A.D. 1497-1885 and an Alphabetical List of the Livery from A.D. 1496-1914, With the Dates of Their Livery (London, Privately printed, 1915), by Henry Laverock Phillips (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Jack Straw, Lighthouse Builder (New York: R. M. McBride and Co., 1915), by Irving Crump, illust. by Leslie Crump
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• General Construction Workers, Builders of America, by Industrial Workers of the World (PDF page images at MSU)

• Wars of Attrition: Vietnam, the Business Roundtable and the Decline of Construction Unions (second revised edition; Iowa City: Fanpihua Press, 2000), by Marc Linder
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Iowa

• Building Towers, Cheating Workers: Exploitation of Migrant Construction Workers in Dubai (New York: Human Rights Watch, 2006), by Hadi Ghaemi (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• The Gold Trail (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1910), by Harold Bindloss (Gutenberg text)

• Projecting Capitalism: A History of the Internationalization of the Construction Industry (Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, c1994), by Marc Linder
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Iowa

• Wars of Attrition: Vietnam, the Business Roundtable and the Decline of Construction Unions (second revised edition; Iowa City: Fanpihua Press, 2000), by Marc Linder
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Iowa

• Wars of Attrition: Vietnam, the Business Roundtable and the Decline of Construction Unions (second revised edition; Iowa City: Fanpihua Press, 2000), by Marc Linder
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Iowa

• The Em Kayan, by Morrison Knudsen Corporation (partial serial archives)

• Building for Tomorrow: Global Enterprise and the U.S. Construction Industry (1988), by National Research Council Building Research Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Official Directory, Licensed Contractors of California, by California Contractors' State License Board (partial serial archives)

• Project Management for Construction: Fundamental Concepts for Owners, Engineers, Architects and Builders (version 2.2, 2008), by Chris Hendrickson and Tung Au (illustrated HTML at CMU)

• The Dream of the Factory-Made House: Walter Gropius and Konrad Wachsmann (c1984), by Gilbert Herbert (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)

• Aladdin Homes Catalog, by Aladdin Company (partial serial archives)

• The Youtz-Slick Lift Slab Method of Construction (San Antonio: Institute of Inventive Research, ca. 1952), by John B. Porter and Richard S. Colley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Contractor (partial serial archives)

• Construction Review (full serial archives)

• Heating and Ventilating (full serial archives)

• Inspection and Other Strategies for Assuring Quality in Government Construction (1991), by National Research Council Building Research Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Building for Tomorrow: Global Enterprise and the U.S. Construction Industry (1988), by National Research Council Building Research Board (page images with commentary at NAP)
• General Construction Workers, Builders of America, by Industrial Workers of the World (PDF page images at MSU)

• Crumbling Dreams: What You Must Know Before Building or Buying a New House (or Condo), by Ruth S. Martin (HTML at Lakeside Press)

• And They Built a Crooked House, by Ruth S. Martin
  • frame-dependent HTML at Lakeside Press
  • simpler HTML at Lakeside Press

• A Non-Computer Approach to the Critical Path Method for the Construction Industry (second edition; Stanford: Dept. of Civil Engineering, Stanford University, 1962), by John W. Fondahl (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dangers in the Dust: Inside the Global Asbestos Trade (digital newsbook edition, c2010), by Center for Public Integrity (PDF at publicintegrity.org)

• The Great Algonkin Flint Mines at Coxsackie (Rochester, NY: Lewis H. Morgan Chapter, 1925), by Arthur C. Parker (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Lettering of an Athenian Mason (Hesperia supplement #15; Princeton, NJ: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1975), by Stephen V. Tracy, contrib. by Sterling Dow (PDF in Greece)

• Athenian Democracy in Transition: Attic Letter-Cutters of 340 to 290 B.C. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), by Stephen V. Tracy (HTML at UC Press)

• Structural Models for Architectural and Engineering Education (Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1963), by Peter Jan Pahl and Keto Soosaar (page images at HathiTrust)

• Forty Lessons in Carpentry Workshop Practice (new and enlarged edition; London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1896), by Charles F. Mitchell and George A. Michell
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Excavating Engineer (partial serial archives)

• Educational Matchmaking: Academic and Vocational Tracking in Comprehensive High Schools, by Jeannie Oakes, Molly Selvin, Lynn A. Karoly, and Gretchen Gulton (PDF files with commentary at rand.org)

• Children in Jeopardy: A Study of Abused Minors and Their Families (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1967), by Elizabeth Elmer, contrib. by Bertram R. Girdany, Thomas McHenry, and John B. Reinhart (page images at Pitt)

• Family Size and Achievement (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Judith Blake (HTML at UC Press)

• The Scholar's Courtesy: The Role of Acknowledgement in the Primary Communication Process (1995), by Blaise Cronin (linked PDF files here at Penn)

• Intellectual Suppression: Australian Case Histories, Analysis and Responses (Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1986), ed. by Brian Martin, C. M. Ann Baker, Clyde Manwell, and Cedric D. J. Pugh (PDF in Australia)

• Academic E-Books: Publishers, Librarians, and Users (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2016), ed. by Suzanne M. Ward, Robert S. Freeman, and Judith M. Nixon (PDF at Purdue)

• Wage, Trade, and Exchange in Melanesia: A Manus Society in the Modern State (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by James G. Carrier and Achsah H. Carrier (HTML at UC Press)

• The Many Faces of Human Security: Case Studies of Seven Countries in Southern Africa (2005), ed. by Keith Muloongo, Roger Kibasomba, and Jemima Njeri Kariri (PDF at issafrica.org)

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