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

by Jane LaTour

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230619185
• ISBN13: 9780230619180
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"