Archives

This archive lists resources by topic related to recruitment, retention, compliance, enforcement, and diversity efforts within the construction trades. These documents can be browsed by title or searched by using your computer’s finder. They are organized below alphabetically and by topic:

APPRENTICESHIP AND PRE-APPRENTICESHIP: PROGRAMS AND RESOURCES

HEALTH AND SAFETY FOR WOMEN IN CONSTRUCTION (HASWIC)

INTERNATIONAL

MEDIA RESOURCES

PROJECT LABOR AGREEMENTS AND COMMUNITY BENEFIT AGREEMENTS

RESEARCH REPORTS

TRADESWOMEN’S ORGANIZATIONS

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APPRENTICESHIP AND PRE-APPRENTICESHIP: PROGRAMS AND RESOURCES

• Boston Building & Construction Trades Apprenticeship Directory – 2021 (includes application deadlines)
• APPRENTICESHIP Completion and Cancellation in the Building Trades Aspen 2013
• An Effectiveness Assessment and Cost-Benefit Analysis of Registered Apprenticeship in 10 States 2012, Reed et al 2012
• Blue Ribbon Commission on Women and Apprenticeship CA 2006
• Building Trades Apprentice Training in Massachusetts: An Analysis of Union and Non-Union Programs, 1997-2007. Anneta Argyres and Susan Moir. Labor Resource Center Publications, University of Massachusetts Boston. 2008.
• Gender and Racial Training Gaps in Oregon Apprenticeship Programs 2011
• Massachusetts Building & Construction Trades Apprenticeship Directory 2021
• Outcomes of Two Construction Trades Pre-Apprenticeship Programs: A Comparison, Worthen, H, Haynes, A
• Under-representation by gender and race in Apprenticeships: Research summary, UK 2013
• Construction Pre-Apprenticeship Programs: Interviews with Field Leaders, 2010
• Overview of Aptitude Testing in Construction Apprenticeship
• Apprenticeship: Completion and Cancellation in the Building Trades: Matt Helmer and Dave Altstadt. Workforce Strategies Initiative, The Aspen Institute. 2013.
• Construction Apprenticeship in Oregon: An Analysis of Data on Union and NonUnion Apprenticeship Programs, Prepared for the Oregon State Building and Construction Trades Council by Barbara Byrd, Ph.D of the Labor Education and Research Center at the University of Oregon. April 2009.
• Report of the Blue Ribbon Committee on Women in Apprenticeship: California Apprenticeship Council (CAC)
• Recommendations to Encourage Registered Apprenticeship – Community-Based Organization Partnerships. Advisory Committee on Apprenticeship, Education and Workforce Partnership Workgroup, and Under-Represented Populations Workgroup. 2013.
• Do Unions Help or Hinder Women in Training? Apprenticeship Programs in the United States, Gunseli Berik and Cihan Bilginsoy. Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society. Vol. 39, Issue 4, 600-624. October 2000.
• Gender and Racial Training Gaps in Oregon Apprenticeship Programs, Gunseli Berik, Cihan Bilginsoy, and Larry S. Williams.
• Recommendations to Encourage Registered Apprenticeship – Community-Based Organization Partnerships. Advisory Committee on Apprenticeship, Education and Workforce Partnership Workgroup, and Under-Represented Populations Workgroup. 2013.
• PRE-APPRENTICESHIP- PATHWAYS FOR WOMEN INTO HIGH-WAGE CAREERS A Guide for Community-Based Organizations and Workforce Providers
• Designing a Pre-Apprenticeship Model for Women Entering and Succeeding in the Construction Trades: A Report to YouthBuild Providence: Report by PGTI co-conveners Elizabeth Skidmore and Susan Moir. September 2004
• Construction Pre-Apprenticeship Programs: Interviews with Field Leaders, 2010
• CONSTRUCTION APTITUDE ASSESSMENT TEST Chicago Women in the Trades
• The Pink to Green Toolkit

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• Boston Resident Jobs Policy (BRJP)
  • Ordinance Establishing the BRJP, 1983
  • Executive Order Extending the BRJP, 1985
  • Ordinance Amending the Boston Employment Commission, 1986
  • Amending the Boston Residents Jobs Policy and Boston Employment Commission, 2017
  • Boston Employment Commission (BEC) (includes meeting schedule)
  • Pre-Construction Package for Developers and Contractors
  • PGTI’S Cheatsheet on the BRJP, including “Contractors Best 9 Efforts”
  • PGTI commissioned study: BUILDING EQUITY- Diversifying Boston’s Construction Workforce 2019

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• Child Care
  • Care That Works Brief 2021 For more information, contact CareThatWorks.org
  • PREGNANCY AND MATERNITY LEAVE IN THE TRADES: GOOD PRACTICES FOR APPRENTICES- NATIONAL CENTER FOR WOMEN’S EQUITY IN APPRENTICESHIP AND EMPLOYMENT-LESSONS FOR THE FIELD: BEST PRACTICES FOR BUILDING WOMEN’S INCLUSION
• The Construction Careers Handbook- How to Build Coalitions and Win Agreements That Create Career Pathways for Low Income People and Lift Up Construction Industry Jobs 2013
• Career Pathways to Quality Jobs in Construction, Hospitality, and Healthcare, 2016
• CPWR: The Center to Protect Workers Rights

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• Empowering Women: IBEW Women’s Resource Guide 2010

• Enforcement Agencies and Federal, State, and Municipal Workforce Participation Laws

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• For the People, By the People- Best practices for maximizing resident, minority and female participation on construction

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• Golden, Sharon, Increasing Women in Nontraditional Occupations: The Organized Building Trades as a Pathway to Self-Sufficiency

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HEALTH AND SAFETY FOR WOMEN IN CONSTRUCTION (HASWIC)

• Women in the Construction Workplace: Providing Equitable Safety and Health Protection- Health and Safety of Women in Construction (HASWIC) workgroup, OSHA, 1999 Also available for down load at HASWIC REPORT 1999.
• Women in construction: Occupational health and working conditions, Welsh, Hunting and Goldenhar, February 2000

• Risks Facing Women in Construction. New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH), 2013

• Risks Facing Women in Construction, NYCOSH, 2006

• CPWR: The Center to Protect Workers Rights

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INFRASTRUCTURE

• Diversity in Infrastructure Testimony To House Select Committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth 
• Audit of DCAMM on Diversity Failures
•  Illinois Tollway Earned Credit Program

• I Knew I Could Do This Work: Seven Strategies That Promote Women’s Activism and Leadership in Unions, Amy Caiazza. December 2007.

INTERNATIONAL

• Tradeswomen Building Bridges: the North American Network of Women Working in the Construction Trades

• Building and Wood Workers International

AUSTRALIA

• Women in Male-Dominated Industries: A Toolkit of Strategies. Australian Human Rights Commission. 2013.

• Canterbury New Zealand Rebuild

  • Building back better- Utilising women’s labour in the Canterbury recovery 2013
  • Getting it done: Utilising women’s skills in the workforce. Lessons from the Canterbury rebuild. A case study by the Ministry for Women, August 2015, New Zealand.
  • 5 TIPS: New Zealand’s Strategic Lessons

CANADA

• The Competitive Advantage: A Business Case for Hiring Women in the Skilled Trades and Technical Professions, The Canadian Apprenticeship Forum
• Trade HERizons, Women’s Network PEI: a project designed to increase the number of women in non-traditional trades and technology occupations on PEI.
• Women’s Network PEI: Women’s Network supports unemployed and underemployed women explore, prepare for, obtain and maintain employment in the trades and industrial technology fields.
• Sexual Safety of Women in Construction, ThinkAthena, 2021
• A ROADMAP TO SUPPORTING WOMEN IN THE TRADES, Canadian Apprenticeship Forum, 2019
• The State of Women in Canada, Government of Canada Construction Sector Council, 2010
• Rough Trades, BC Business, 2019
• Lessons Learned and Best Practices Increasing the Successful Participation Of Women in Apprenticeship & the Skilled Trades © A Research Study. Braundy, 2017
• Enhancing the Retention and Advancement of Women in Trades in British Columbia: Final Report, 2017

GREAT BRITAIN

• Under-representation by gender and race in Apprenticeships: Research Summary. Union Learn. London, Trades Union Congress: Dec. 2013.
• Women into Construction, an independent not-for-profit organization that promotes gender equality in construction in the UK.

Ireland

• WITNI- Women in Trades Network Ireland

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• McNulty, Dan, A Recent History of the Massachusetts Union Tradeswomen Movement V2

MEDIA RESOURCES

• Julia Murray: Iron Worker (video). Slate. March 2015

• Films by Vivian Price (Former Electrician)

  • Hammering It Out, A film by Vivian Price, 2000, 54 minutes, Color, DVD http://sohstream.csudh.edu/price/hammering_it_out.mp4
  • Transnational Tradeswomen, A film by Vivian Price. 2006, 62 minutes, Color, DVD, Thai, Chinese, Tamil, Urdu, Japanese, Subtitled http://sohstream.csudh.edu/price/transnational_tradeswomen.mp4
• Slideshow: Women Building California and the Nations Conference 2015

• Two short films: In My Own Words (1992) about the first African American Journeylevel electrician in Los Angeles International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Nesthey Crudup. Second is Faces of Tradeswomen, short profiles of two plumbers and two electricians. UNAVAILABLE AT THIS TIME.
• Additional videos and films including short clips featuring Massachusetts tradeswomen

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• National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC)
  • NAWIC’s Block Kids Program: introduces children in grades 1 – 6 to the construction industry.
• National Report Card on Women in Firefighting. Institute for Women and Work, School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR), Cornell University. New York, NY, April 2008.

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• Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, Equal Employment Opportunity, US Department of Labor

  • Executive Order 11246, Annotated by Women’s Bureau

  • Chart of the Standard Federal Equal Employment Opportunity’s 16 Required Affirmative Action Steps (created by Oregon Tradeswomen, Inc. October 2002.)

• Oregon Department of Transportation Workforce Development Program

• Oregon Tradeswomen, Inc

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Pre-apprenticeship Programs and Resources

PROJECT LABOR AGREEMENTS AND COMMUNITY BENEFIT AGREEMENTS

• PLAs

  • Integrated Science Complex (ISC), UMass – Boston– removed from public domain by DCAMM

  • General Academic Building 1 (GAB1), UMass – Boston

  • Edward M. Kennedy (EMK) Institute, UMass – Boston

  • Utility Corridor and Roadway Relocation (UCRR), UMass – Boston

• CBAs

  • Portland OR City Council model Community Benefits Agreement (“CBA”) for use on City-owned construction projects, 2012
  • Los Angeles Community Workforce Agreement
  • Los Angeles Sports and Entertainment District Project CBA
  • Milwaukee Bucks CBA
  • Worcester YMCA Community Benefits Agreement

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• Recommendations to Encourage Registered Apprenticeship – Community-Based Organization Partnerships. Advisory Committee on Apprenticeship, Education and Workforce Partnership Workgroup, and Under-Represented Populations Workgroup. 2013.

RESEARCH REPORTS

• Kelly, Maura et al (See her website for a complete list of Prof. Maura Kelly’s contributions to the Tradeswomen’s Movement.)
  • Apprenticeship Needs Assessment in Heavy Highway Construction Workforce, 2012
  • Building a More Diverse Skilled Workforce in the Highway Trades: Are Oregon’s Current Efforts Working?
  • Evaluation of the Potential for Adapting the Green Dot Bystander Intervention Program for the Construction Trades in Oregon
  • Evaluation of the Effect of Supportive Services on the Success of Apprentices in a Highway Trade
  • Still Building a More Diverse Workforce in the Highway Trades:  2016 Evaluation of the ODOT/BOLI Highway Construction Workforce Development Program
  • 2020 Evaluation of the Highway Construction Workforce Development Program
  • Continuing to Build a More Diverse Workforce in the Highway Trades: 2018 Evaluation of the ODOT/BOLI Highway Construction Workforce Development Program

  • Studying Inequalities in the Construction Trades Using a Mixed-Methods Research Design, Kelly and Wilkinson, SAGE Research Methods Cases. 2018.

• Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR)

  • IWPR: A Future Worth Building: What Tradeswomen say about the change they need in the construction industry, Hegewisch and Mefferd, 2021

  • IWPR: Here to Stay: Black, Latina, and Afro-Latina Women in Construction Trades Apprenticeships and Employment, 2021

  • IWPR: Child Care Supports For The Construction Trades: Building and Sustaining Diversity in Oregon. 2020

  • IWPR: Women Gain Jobs in Construction Trades but Remain Underrepresented in the Field, 2020

  • IWPR: Stronger Together: Union Membership Boosts Women’s Earnings and Economic Security

  • Untapped Resources, Untapped Labor Pool: Using Federal Highway Funds to Prepare Women for Careers in Construction

• Jobs with Justice/NABTU

  • BUILDING CAREER OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN AND PEOPLE OF COLOR: Breakthroughs in Construction

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• San Francisco Ordinance: Mandatory Local Hiring (does not address gender)
  • • Fact Sheet
    • Progress report in local press
• Standards & Regulations

STEM

• • Yes We Can! Women in Engineering Science & Technology: free activity books and website for young children from WEST (Women in Engineering, Science and Technology). 

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• Tradeswomen Organizations & Resources

• Tools of the Trade: A Resource Guide for Women Entering or in the Trades in Massachusetts

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• UMass Boston Project Labor Agreement

• University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Labor Relations and Research Center

• University of Massachusetts Boston’s Labor Resource Center

• Unfinished Business: Building Equality for Women in the Construction Trades

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• Women’s Committees in Worker Organizations:  Still Making A Difference, 2014. 

• Women’s Economic Security Act (WESA) is a Minnesota law that “strengthens workplace protections and flexibility for pregnant women and nursing mothers, expands employment opportunities for women in high-wage, high-demand occupations and reduces the gender pay gap through increased enforcement of equal pay laws.”

• Women’s Economic Security Act, 2020 Annual Report, Minnesota Dept of Labor and Industry

• The Workforce Investment Act Adult Program: How Women Fare, Mathematica Policy Research, 2013.
• Women Workers and Unions, Center for Economic and Policy Research. December 2013.

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