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Author LaTour, Jane.

Title Sisters in the brotherhoods : working women organizing for equality in New York City / Jane LaTour.

Publication Info. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  HD6508.5 .L37 2008    Available  ---
Edition 1st ed.
Description xviii, 276 pages, 11 pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Series Palgrave studies in oral history
Palgrave studies in oral history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-262) and index.
Contents Writing tradeswomen into history -- Rosie's daughters -- United Tradeswomen: organizing for the guaranteed right to work in any job -- Construction -- Learning to labor on high steel -- When worlds collide: the first women in Electricians' Local 3 -- "Ticket to ride" -- The agencies -- "Sticking to the union" -- Uncivil service at the Board of Education -- Double vision: breaking down doors at the FDNY -- 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 -- Transportation -- Woman on the move -- Moving forward -- Against the grain -- Getting past pioneering -- Epilogue: where are they now?
Subject Women labor leaders -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Women labor leaders.
New York (State) -- New York.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Biographies.
ISBN 9781403967589
140396758X
9780230619180 paperback
0230619185 paperback