Ina"Live Wire," Francine Moccio brings to life forty years of public policy reform and advocacy that have failed to eliminate restricted opportunities for women in highly paid, skilled blue-collar jobs. Breaking barriers into a male-only occupation and trade, women electricians have found career opportunities in nontraditional work. Yet their efforts to achieve gender equality have also collided with the prejudice and fraternal values of brotherhood and factors that have ultimately derailed women's full inclusion. By ...
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Ina"Live Wire," Francine Moccio brings to life forty years of public policy reform and advocacy that have failed to eliminate restricted opportunities for women in highly paid, skilled blue-collar jobs. Breaking barriers into a male-only occupation and trade, women electricians have found career opportunities in nontraditional work. Yet their efforts to achieve gender equality have also collided with the prejudice and fraternal values of brotherhood and factors that have ultimately derailed women's full inclusion. By drawing instructive comparisons of womenOCOs entrance into the electriciansOCO trade and its union with those of black and other minority men, MoccioOCOs in-depth case study brings new insights into the ways in which divisions at work along the lines of race, gender, and economic background enhance and/or inhibit inclusion. Incorporating research based on extensive primary, secondary, and archival resources, a"Live Wire"acontributes a much-needed examination of how sex segregation is reproduced in blue-collar occupations, while also scrutinizing the complex interactions of work, unions, leisure, and family life.
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Very good. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 271 p. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2008047846 Type of material Book Personal name Moccio, Francine A., 1951-Main title Live wire: women and brotherhood in the electrical industry / Francine A. Moccio. Published/Created Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009. Description xii, 271 p. : ill.; 24 cm. ISBN 9781592137374 (cloth: alk. paper) 1592137377 (cloth: alk. paper) LC classification HD6515. E32 I58 2009 Contents Introduction: Getting wired--Brotherhood: the history--A closer look at Local 3--The struggle to become electricians--On the electrical construction work site: the sexual charge--Race for the brotherhood: the ironies of integration--A club of her own--Conclusion: Getting women down to the job site. Subjects International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Local no. 3 (New York, N.Y. ) Electric industry workers--Labor unions--United States. Building trades--Employees--Labor unions--United States. Sex discrimination against women--United States. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-260) and index. Dewey class no. 331.4/862130973 Geographic area code n-us---Other system no. (OCoLC)ocn276930319
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