Sisters in the Brotherhoods - Working Women Organizing for Equality in New York City (Hardcover)

"Sisters in the Brotherhoods "is an oral-history-based study of women who have, against considerable odds, broken the gender barrier to blue-collar employment in various trades in New York City beginning in the 1970s. It is a story of the fight against deeply ingrained cultural assumptions about what constitutes women's work, the middle-class bias of feminism, the daily grinding sexism of male coworkers, and the institutionalized discrimination of employers and unions. It is also the story of some gutsy women who, seeking the material rewards and personal satisfactions of skilled manual labor, have struggled to make a place for themselves among New York City's construction workers, stationary engineers, firefighters, electronic technicians, plumbers, and transit workers.Each story contributes to an important unifying theme: the way women confronted the enormous sexism embedded in union culture and developed new organizational forms to support their struggles, including and especially the United Tradeswomen.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Oral History
Release date:	November 2008
First published:	August 2008
Authors:	J LaTour
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	276
ISBN-13:	978-1-4039-6758-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Work & labour Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
LSN:	1-4039-6758-X
Barcode:	9781403967589

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