| Sisters in the Brotherhoods: Working Women Organizing for Equality in New York City 2008 Edition Contributor(s): LaTour, J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 140396758X ISBN-13: 9781403967589 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Women's Studies - Social Science | Discrimination & Race Relations - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2007052850 |
| Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.3" W x 9.3" (1.20 lbs) 276 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Chronological Period - 1970's - Chronological Period - 1980's - Chronological Period - 1990's - Locality - New York, N.Y. - Geographic Orientation - New York |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 co-workers, and the institutionalised 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 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. 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. |