We'll call you if we need you
Subtitle: experiences of women working construction
By: Susan Eisenberg ; with a new preface
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781501724930; 9781501719769; 9781501719776; 9781501719783
Subjects: Interviews; Women construction workers
Description: "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"--
Notes: A reissue of the 1998 ILR Press edition, with a new preface by the author.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface to the 2018 printing; title: Footings; title: Pioneering; title: Doors, windows, locks; title: Crossing the threshold : first days; title: Ain't got to show you shit; title: Making gender boundaries : porn, piss, power tools; title: (And yet) passions; title: Exceptional men; title: Balancing along across an I-beam; title: Settling in; title: Bucket or bathroom?; title: Carrying weight; title: Customized treatment : women of color; title: Ceilings and access panels : economics; title: Ceilings and access panels : leadership; title: Expansion joints; title: Punch list; title: The tradeswomen; title: Who's where; title: Record of interviews.