| The Girls Are Coming Contributor(s): Carlson, Peggie (Author) |
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ISBN: 0873513762 ISBN-13: 9780873513760 Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press OUR PRICE: $17.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1999 Annotation: In 1974, lured by good wages, a 22-year-old African American college student from suburbia started work as a pipefitter trainee for a utility company, one of the first women to break into this male-dominated world. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Women - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 99020893 |
| Series: Midwest Reflections |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 5.22" W x 7.98" (0.54 lbs) 211 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1970's - Cultural Region - Great Lakes - Cultural Region - Midwest - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Geographic Orientation - Minnesota - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Locality - Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-Wi - Cultural Region - Upper Midwest |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In 1974, lured by good wages, a 22-year-old African American college student from suburban Minneapolis started work as a pipefitter trainee for Minnegasco, a Minnesota natural-gas utility. Peggie Samples was one of the first four women hired by the company into non-secretarial jobs after the passage of the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972. On the job, she and her beautiful blond friend Sonny met men who were hostile, men who were helpful, and men who were simply flummoxed to find "girls" in their midst. "S'long as a guy does his job," one told her, "it don't matter ta me if he's a gal." This memoir is the sometimes hilarious story of how they learned to work together--and what they all learned about stereotypes. |