Book Writing

Praise for Working at the Calling

"I am impressed with this publication."
                    —Former President Bill Clinton

"The book demonstrates the insight and vision organized labor has always brought to the American experience. . . . Well done."
                          —Governor Mario Cuomo

"Working at the Calling portrays in brisk text and expressive photographs the on-site work of construction laborers and their international union and its officers. The narrative flows [to] reveal a national labor union vibrant and meeting new challenges."
            —John T. Dunlop, 
                Lamont Professor Emeritus
                Harvard University
                U.S. Secretary of Labor, 1975-76

"I recommend it to anyone who wants to learn more about this backbone of our nation."
                         —Edward Asner 
                            Activist, former president
                            Screen Actors' Guild

"Some of the best photography I've ever seen . . . an impressive record of the people and events involving the union . . . a wonderful history book on the building of America."
                  —David E. Skaggs
                     U.S. Representative, Colorado

"Read this book, pass it on, and put it in your library. It's a great resource, and the photographs are terrific too."
             —Karen Nussbaum, former director
                Women's Bureau 
                U.S. Department of Labor  

An excerpt:

Health and Safety: The Life and Death Issues

Construction is an industry which constitutes 5% of the jobs in the United States and accounts for more than 25% of on-the-job deaths. Only agriculture, which includes logging, is worse. It's an industry which injures one in seven of its workers each year and, in 1989, lost 6,386,000 workdays to injury. That's a year's work by 40,000 laborers. An industry whose death rate in the United States ranks us 20th out of 23 nations. Our death rates are four times those of Ontario, Sweden, Japan, Norway and the United Kingdom. By any measure, construction is a killer, and it is the industry which employs about 60% (over 350,000) of LIUNA members.

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