Palgrave Studies in Oral History Ser.: Sisters in the Brotherhoods : Working Women Organizing for Equality in New York City by Jane LaTour (2008, Hardcover)

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PublisherPalgrave Macmillan

ISBN-10140396758X

ISBN-139781403967589

eBay Product ID (ePID)27038493169

Product Key Features

Number of PagesXviii, 276 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameSisters in the Brotherhoods : Working Women Organizing for Equality in New York City

SubjectGender Studies, Modern / General, United States / General

Publication Year2008

TypeTextbook

AuthorJane Latour

Subject AreaSocial Science, History

SeriesPalgrave Studies in Oral History Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight22 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2007-052850

Reviews"An eye-opening recounting of how little legal protection women had in the workplace just 40 years ago." --New York Post "An important and powerful acknowledgment of what tradeswomen have accomplished." --Women's Review of Books "Jane LaTour's Sisters in the Brotherhoods, is a conscientiously researched oral history of the first women who organized for gender equality in New York City unions. What's startling about the book is the freshness of its narratives: the women remember everything that happened to them. They remember it like it was yesterday. LaTour's urgent voice breathes color into the old days of all-male and nearly-all-white telephone companies and fire departments. LaTour, who describes her process of writing the book as "quilting," embroiders the events (legal actions, organizing drives, intra-union battles) that surrounded the women's apprenticeships with the words of the women themselves. LaTour is a documentarian who uses her own voice in service of rendering the invisible visible."-Booklsut "Latour's documentation of the experiences of these forerunners in notational, blue-collar jobs is a testament to their legacy to the young women of the next and future generations . . . enlightening and empowering." --Feminist Review "Injects the suspense of a thriller into a portrait of women breaking into blue-collar jobs . . . LaTour shatters tradeswomen's invisibility by providing in-depth portraits of the vast range of women who challenged exclusionary practices." --Working USA "Sisters in the Brotherhoods is a gem of a book. With it, LaTour has given us important documentation of an inspiring piece of history that is too little known." --Z Magazine "A reminder of how much has changed, and how much hasn't." --World Wide Work "Sisters in the Brotherhoods is one of the most exciting books that I've read in years. It is nothing less than a history of the late twentieth century movement of women into non-traditional jobs as recalled by and through the voices of the women who opened the doors. Jane Latour seamlessly melds the aspirations, experiences, doubts and achievements of the courageous women who earned their livings in trades reserved for men into a persuasive analysis of generational change. Every young woman should read this resonant and moving book." --Alice Kessler-Harris, author of In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth Century America "Jane LaTour's book Sisters in the Brotherhoods: Working Women Organizing for Equality in New York City is a great reminder that when we have equal opportunities in every line of work we thrive. When women change the way work is done, they make lasting change in the culture of the workplace." --Billie Jean King "Jane LaTour tells the history of the tradeswomen movement by focusing on events in New York City. She captures the real lives of tradeswomen through stories that are poignant, raw, and uplifting. It brought back to me the frustration of trying to engage the Women's Movement in seeing tradeswomen as more than role models for our daughters. In our sex-segregated economy tradeswomen are on the front line in the battle for economic justice." --Dale McCormick, the first woman to complete the carpentry apprenticeship with the International Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, Local 1260 in Iowa City, in, "An eye-opening recounting of how little legal protection women had in the workplace just 40 years ago." --New York Post "An important and powerful acknowledgment of what tradeswomen have accomplished." --Women's Review of Books "Latour's documentation of the experiences of these forerunners in notational, blue-collar jobs is a testament to their legacy to the young women of the next and future generations . . . enlightening and empowering." --Feminist Review "Injects the suspense of a thriller into a portrait of women breaking into blue-collar jobs . . . LaTour shatters tradeswomen's invisibility by providing in-depth portraits of the vast range of women who challenged exclusionary practices." --Working USA "Sisters in the Brotherhoodsis a gem of a book. With it, LaTour has given us important documentation of an inspiring piece of history that is too little known." --Z Magazine "A reminder of how much has changed, and how much hasn't." --World Wide Work "Sisters in the Brotherhoodsis one of the most exciting books that I've read in years. It is nothing less than a history of the late twentieth century movement of women into non-traditional jobs as recalled by and through the voices of the women who opened the doors. Jane Latour seamlessly melds the aspirations, experiences, doubts and achievements of the courageous women who earned their livings in trades reserved for men into a persuasive analysis of generational change. Every young woman should read this resonant and moving book." --Alice Kessler-Harris, author ofIn Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth Century America "Jane LaTour's bookSisters in the Brotherhoods: Working Women Organizing for Equality in New York Cityis a great reminder that when we have equal opportunities in every line of work we thrive. When women change the way work is done, they make lasting change in the culture of the workplace." --Billie Jean King "Jane LaTour tells the history of the tradeswomen movement by focusing on events in New York City. She captures the real lives of tradeswomen through stories that are poignant, raw, and uplifting. It brought back to me the frustration of trying to engage the Women's Movement in seeing tradeswomen as more than role models for our daughters. In our sex-segregated economy tradeswomen are on the front line in the battle for economic justice." --Dale McCormick, the first woman to complete the carpentry apprenticeship with the International Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, Local 1260 in Iowa City, in 1975 "InSisters in the Brotherhoods, Jane LaTour draws on extensive interviews and oral histories with women who broke into the building trades in New York City over the last several decades. The interviews are enormously rich sources, filled with stunning stories of male resistance, abuse, and hostility toward the integration of women and equally stirring tales of women's determination to survive this treatment. Even as they were subjected to various hair-raising and harrowing forms of harassment and intimidation, the women whose oral histories form the heart of this compelling and moving book sought to challenge and reform the system. Reform could be incredibly hard and scary work; it took one woman fourteen years to find the courage to speak at her own local. But they did speak out and by their individual and collective efforts, they organized women and sympathetic men and empowered them to fight for their rights. Sister

Dewey Edition22

Number of Volumes1 vol.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal331.47809227471

Table Of ContentPART I: WRITING TRADESWOMEN INTO HISTORY * Rosie's Daughters * United Tradeswomen: Organizing for the Guaranteed Right to Work in Any Job * PART II: CONSTRUCTION * Learning to Labor on High Steel * When Worlds Collide: The First Women in Electricians' Local 3 * "Ticket to Ride" * PART III: THE AGENCIES * "Sticking to the Union" * Uncivil Service at the Board of Education * Double Vision: Breaking Down Doors at the FDNY * PART IV: TECHNOLOGY * From Economics to Electronics: The Making of an Activist * That's Just the Way It Was: AT&T and the Struggle for Equal Opportunity * PART V: TRANSPORTATION * Woman on the Move * PART VI: MOVING FORWARD * Against the Grain * Getting Past Pioneering * Epilogue: Where Are They Now?

SynopsisSisters 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.

LC Classification NumberE171-183.9