Hundreds refuse to cross picket line in wildcat Crossrail strike More than 200 workers at the flagship rail construction project have downed tools today in…
Green bans people 1971-75 Historical information about many of the key individuals and groups involved in the "green bans" by Australian construction workers in the early…
The Monopoly board of the city: Grenfell Tower - where was the HCA, government housing regulator?? The Homes & Community Agency(HCA) is the UK state regulatory body for social…
List of green bans, 1971-1974 A list and map of green bans in New South Wales from 1971, compiled in June 1974. Green bans were refusals of construction workers to work on…
East Germany, June 1953 A short account of the East German working class mass strike and uprising in 1953, which was crushed by Russian tanks, written by Andy Blunden in…
A new concept of unionism: the New South Wales Builders Labourers' Federation 1970-1974 Meredith Burgmann's pioneering work on the history of the New South Wales branch of the Australian…
Construction workers riot at Samsung, Vietnam On Tuesday, a riot involving hundreds of construction workers broke out at a Samsung display plant in Bắc Ninh Province, not far from the capital…
The dirty tricks of the Shrewsbury trials expose the dark heart of the radical 1970s - Paul Mason Article by economist Paul Mason about the 1972 UK builders' strike that led to the…
Building a community: construction workers in Stevenage 1950-1970 Interesting pamphlet about the workers who built the new town of Stevenage, commissioned by the…
Battles on the Barbican: the struggle for trade unionism in the British building industry, 1965–7 - Charlie McGuire, Linda Clarke and Christine Wall History of the industrial disputes and workers' struggles on the Barbican…
Building the Barbican 1962-1982: taking the industry out of the dark ages Fantastic pamphlet on the workers' struggles during the construction of the brutalist masterpiece…
Reflecting on injury and stolen wages at work - Megan Kinch An account by Megan Kinch about working in the non-union construction industry in Toronto.