Digging: The Workers of Boston's Big Dig
- ISBN-10
- 1889833924
- ISBN-13
- 9781889833927
- Category
- Construction workers
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
Description
Beneath the city, behind all the hoopla, 5000 men and women did the work that resulted in The Big Dig. This is their story, in graphic black-and-white.
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Other editions
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- 2010-04-20
- 411 pages
- Paperback
- Univ of California Press
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- 2009-05-26
- 436 pages
- Ebook
- Univ of California Press
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