Inter-Personal Relations in the Building Industry

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Although building is a vast industry, employing thousands of men and involving the fabrication and assembling of great quantities of raw materials, the basic human relationships in the industry are for the most part informal and unstandardized. Inter-personal relations in building achieve their essential character not only from the technological organization of the industry with its itinerant patterns of manufacture and handicraft techniques, but also from an accumulation of attitudes, sentiments and traditions which form the culture of the trades. Perhaps more than workers in any other industry, the building workers function as independent units, each worker pursuing employment and making arrangements to apply his skills according to personal contacts, personal preference, and a personal schedule. Due to the fact that building projects are of relatively brief duration1 and that a new labor force is assembled for each job, there is an almost continuous turnover, producing separate employment patterns for ...

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