Foreword Preface Fifty-four Reasons for Repeal Chapter I: Introduction 1. Davis-Bacon Act before 1935 2. Economic Claims Supporting Construction Wage Protection 3. Racial Animus, 1931 4. Probable Real Impetus for Davis-Bacon 5. The Central Concept Maintaining the Prevailing Wage 6. The Davis-Bacon Act after 1935 Chapter II: Overview of the Construction Industry and Its Labor Relations 1. Fungible Construction Output 2. Industrial Structure: The Union Pattern 3. Industrial Structure: The Nonunion Pattern 4. Craft Unions in the AFL 5. Semi-Skilled Workers and Helpers 6. Union and Nonunion Wage Rates, and the Union Wage Rate Differential 7. The Total Union Premium 8. Types of Construction Markets Chapter III: Wage Determination Overview 1. Experience with Wage Determinations 2. Overview of Wage Determinations 3. Anatomy of Wage Survey Process 4. Safe Union Territory 5. Arbitrary Divisions among Work Regimes 6. Specialty Work and Worker Surveys Chapter IV: The Helper Experiment 1. The Helper Rate Controversy 2. Summary of DOL's Handling of Helper and Helper-Like Rates 3.DOL's Questionable Implementation of Helper Usein Surveys During the Period of Non-Suspension 4. Summary of the Helper Controversy Chapter V: Mechanics of Wage Surveys 1.Survey Mechanics 2. DOL's Manipulative Mechanics in Surveys, Illustrated by the 2002 Pittsburgh-area Residential Construction Survey Chapter VI: Anatomy of a Wage Determination 1. Illustration from a Current Determination 2. Davis-Bacon Fosters Anomalies 3. Implicit Expansions to Unlisted Rates Chapter VII: Costs, Counterclaims, Compromises, and Conclusions 1. Costs of Davis-Bacon 2. Counterclaims: The Benefits of Davis-Bacon 3. Compromise: Why Solutions Short of Repeal Won't Work 4. Conclusions Appendix One: The Davis-Bacon Act Appendix Two: The Construction Industry: Labor Organization and Manpower Use Appendix Three: Proliferating Semi-Skilled Job Titles and the Helper Controversy Appendix Four: Anomalies in Projects Used by DOL in Conducting Wage Survey 94-MD-022 Appendix Five: Mechanics of Wage Determination:The Pennsylvania Example Appendix Six: A Few Anomalies from Current Pennsylvania Determinations Appendix Seven: Excerpts from the Statements of Jeff Lester, Deputy Commissioner, Oklahoma Department of Labor Selected Bibliography
Foreword Preface Fifty-four Reasons for Repeal Chapter I: Introduction 1. Davis-Bacon Act before 1935 2. Economic Claims Supporting Construction Wage Protection 3. Racial Animus, 1931 4. Probable Real Impetus for Davis-Bacon 5. The Central Concept Maintaining the Prevailing Wage 6. The Davis-Bacon Act after 1935 Chapter II: Overview of the Construction Industry and Its Labor Relations 1. Fungible Construction Output 2. Industrial Structure: The Union Pattern 3. Industrial Structure: The Nonunion Pattern 4. Craft Unions in the AFL 5. Semi-Skilled Workers and Helpers 6. Union and Nonunion Wage Rates, and the Union Wage Rate Differential 7. The Total Union Premium 8. Types of Construction Markets Chapter III: Wage Determination Overview 1. Experience with Wage Determinations 2. Overview of Wage Determinations 3. Anatomy of Wage Survey Process 4. Safe Union Territory 5. Arbitrary Divisions among Work Regimes 6. Specialty Work and Worker Surveys Chapter IV: The Helper Experiment 1. The Helper Rate Controversy 2. Summary of DOL's Handling of Helper and Helper-Like Rates 3.DOL's Questionable Implementation of Helper Usein Surveys During the Period of Non-Suspension 4. Summary of the Helper Controversy Chapter V: Mechanics of Wage Surveys 1.Survey Mechanics 2. DOL's Manipulative Mechanics in Surveys, Illustrated by the 2002 Pittsburgh-area Residential Construction Survey Chapter VI: Anatomy of a Wage Determination 1. Illustration from a Current Determination 2. Davis-Bacon Fosters Anomalies 3. Implicit Expansions to Unlisted Rates Chapter VII: Costs, Counterclaims, Compromises, and Conclusions 1. Costs of Davis-Bacon 2. Counterclaims: The Benefits of Davis-Bacon 3. Compromise: Why Solutions Short of Repeal Won't Work 4. Conclusions Appendix One: The Davis-Bacon Act Appendix Two: The Construction Industry: Labor Organization and Manpower Use Appendix Three: Proliferating Semi-Skilled Job Titles and the Helper Controversy Appendix Four: Anomalies in Projects Used by DOL in Conducting Wage Survey 94-MD-022 Appendix Five: Mechanics of Wage Determination:The Pennsylvania Example Appendix Six: A Few Anomalies from Current Pennsylvania Determinations Appendix Seven: Excerpts from the Statements of Jeff Lester, Deputy Commissioner, Oklahoma Department of Labor Selected Bibliography
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