building trades

plural noun

those trades, as carpentry, masonry, and plastering, that are primarily concerned with the construction and finishing of buildings.

First recorded in 1885–90

There were few unionized building trades in rural Pennsylvania.

In Buffalo the journeymen builders' association included all the building trades.

Not only the building trades, as in Boston, but most of the mechanical branches were involved.

Nevertheless, hundreds of thousands of workingmen had won reduced hours of labor, especially in the building trades.

By 1900 the eight-hour day was the rule in the building trades, in granite cutting and in bituminous coal mining.

That'll be equivalent to a general strike in all the building trades.

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