He visited IBEW local unions halls all along the way, peddling pliers in Omaha, and then Chicago, and dozens of other cities. “In many locals along the line, my (IBEW union) card surely helped me across,” said Smith in the Journal article published two years after completing his road...
Such unions do not only secure the acquisition of locality- specific resources for the next generation, but also create new social resources through the spouse's relatives (Fewkes 2009, 75ff.; see also Curtin 1984). However, marriage practices were sometimes restrained by local social and ...