Sisters in the Brotherhoods: Working Women Organizing for Equality in New York City (Palgrave Studies in Oral History)
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| Rating | : | 4.71 (559 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 140396758X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 276 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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Tradeswomen, feminists, labor and civil rights activists, historians, and social scientists will all find wisdom and inspiration in these pages." - Nancy MacLean, author of Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace and The American Women's Movement, 1945-2000: A Brief History with Documents "LaTour rips aside the bromides of superficial victories to explore the punishing ordeals of female pioneers in male dominated industries What makes the interviews so compelling is the author's own on-the-job experience in a series of blue collar occupations and academic positions. When women change the way work is done, they make lasting change in the
"Trade Barriers" according to P. Arnow. It's not a woman's slight body that keeps her out of physically demanding trades. My father-in-law weighed barely more than 100 pounds. Yet he faced no barriers to becoming a plumber, a job he did for Trade Barriers P. Arnow It's not a woman's slight body that keeps her out of physically demanding trades. My father-in-law weighed barely more than 100 pounds. Yet he faced no barriers to becoming a plumber, a job he did for 45 years. He could do the physical labor. "Work smart," he said. "Don't work hard."But he had one advantage that women don't have. He was a man in a man's field. In the 1970s, the assumption that no woman belonged in the trades began to change--a little. Encouraged by anti-discrimination laws . 5 years. He could do the physical labor. "Work smart," he said. "Don't work hard."But he had one advantage that women don't have. He was a man in a man's field. In the 1970s, the assumption that no woman belonged in the trades began to change--a little. Encouraged by anti-discrimination laws . "A must read for those seeking a history of the struggles women have over come recently in male dominated fields." according to Christopher A. Watson. I found Ms. Latour's book quite a fascinating read. She certainly did her home work on the women she profiled so eloquently. Their struggles to gain entry into the professions, that still today is male dominated, showcased the determination women posses and the cruelty men sometimes inflict with their chauvinistic ways. The strength of the women and their struggles throughout the years, fighting for acceptance, highlights how far behind we are today in America in embracing women as equals i. Rosie's Daughters Nowadays, to find a woman CEO leading a Fortune 500 company is no longer a novelty. The most recent list has a dozen, including the bosses of Pepsi, ADM, Kraft, Xerox and Wellpoint. A couple of years ago, a woman was elected Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. And perhaps, if she'd she taken her underdog rival more seriously, a woman would now be the Democratic Party's nominee for the Presidency.But some barriers - seemingly a lot lower and less elite -- remain formidable. Anyone
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. Each story contributes to an important unifying theme: the way women confronted the enormous sexism embedded in union culture and developed new organisational forms to support their struggles, including and especially the United Tradeswomen.. It is also the story of some gutsy women who, seeking the material rewards and personal satisfactions of skilled manual labour, have struggled to make a place for themselves among New York City's construction workers, stationary engineers, firefighters, electronic technicians, plumbers, and transit workers. 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 co-workers, and the institutionalised discrimination of employers and unions
She has written for various union publications and managed the Women's Project of the Association for Union Democracy. . JANE LATOUR is a journalist and labour activist living in New York City, USA. She was the 2005 recipient of the Mary Heaton Vorse Award, the top labour journalism award in New York City