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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Sunday, April 04, 2004 ::
LET'S HEAR IT FOR HARD-HATS New York Post Book Review, By JAMES GARDNER
High Steel: The Daring Men who Built the World's Greatest Skyline by Jim Rasenberger, Harper Collins, 357 pages, $26.95
Rasenberger also includes many asides about the history of sky-scraper construction and enlivens it with colorful anecdotes about men like labor leader Sam Parks, a man who 'once claimed to have gotten into as many as 20 fist fights in a single day.'
Such characters were pitted against industrialists like Henry Clay Frick, whose motto, in dealing with organized labor, was 'If a workman sticks up his head, hit it.'------------------------------------------- posted 10:07 PM :: reference link ::
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