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We'll Call You If We Need You - Experiences of Women Working Construction (Paperback, With a New Preface)
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We'll Call You If We Need You - Experiences of Women Working Construction (Paperback, With a New Preface)
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Susan Eisenberg began her apprenticeship with Local 103 of the
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in 1978, the year
president Jimmy Carter set goals and timetables for the hiring of
women on federally assisted construction projects and for the
inclusion of women in apprenticeship programs. Eisenberg expected
not only a challenging job and the camaraderie of a labor union but
also the chance to be part of a historic transformation, social and
economic, that would make the construction trades accessible to
women. That transformation did not happen. In this book, full of
the raw drama and humor found on a construction site, Eisenberg
gracefully weaves the voices of thirty women who worked as
carpenters, electricians, ironworkers, painters, and plumbers to
examine why their numbers remained small. Speaking as if to a
friend, women recall their decisions to enter the trades, their
first days on the job, and their strategies to gain training and
acceptance. They assess with thought, passion, and twenty years'
perspective the affirmative action efforts. Eisenberg introduces
this new edition with a preface that shows how things have changed
and how they have stayed the same since the book's original
publication. She ends with a discussion of the practices and
policies that would be required to uproot gender barriers where
they are deeply embedded in the organization and culture of the
workplace.
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