We'll call you if we need you : experiences of women working construction / Susan Eisenberg ; with a new preface.

We'll call you if we need you : experiences of women working construction / Susan Eisenberg ; with a new preface.

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Ithaca [New York] ; Londond : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2018.

©2018

211 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

2018 Poets House Showcase.

HD6073.B92 U63 2018

"Susan Eisenberg began her apprenticeship with Local 103 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in 1978, the year president Jimmy Carter set goals and timetables for the hiring of women on federally assisted construction projects and for the inclusion of women in apprenticeship programs. Eisenberg expected not only a challenging job and the camaraderie of a labor union but also the chance to be part of a historic transformation, social and economic, that would make the construction trades accessible to women. That transformation did not happen. This book provides the voices of thirty women who worked as carpenters, electricians, ironworkers, painters, and plumbers to examine why their numbers remained small. The women recall their decisions to enter the trades, their first days on the job, and their strategies to gain training and acceptance. They assess the affirmative action efforts. Eisenberg introduces this new edition with a preface that shows how things have changed and how they have stayed the same since the book's original publication. She ends with a discussion of the practices and policies that would be required to uproot gender barriers where they are deeply embedded in the organization and culture of the workplace"-- Provided by publisher.

A reissue of the 1998 ILR Press edition, with a new preface by the author.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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