Hard-hatted women
Subtitle: life on the job
By: edited by Molly Martin ; photographs by Sandy Thacker.
Contributors: Martin, Molly.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Seal Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
Subjects: Women Employees -- United States -- Biography; Working class women -- United States -- Biography; Women -- United States -- Biography
Description: In this lively collection, twenty-six women talk about their experiences in "non-traditional," blue-collar work. Employed in a wide range of occupations - as ironworkers, carpenters, truck drivers, electricians, sprinkler fitters, subway operators, welders - the women vividly describe the large and small challenges of life on the job.

Their candid first-person narratives express common themes: the drive to prove oneself in trades where women are still vastly underrepresented, the struggles with harassment from male co-workers, the growing self-confidence from new-found skills, the sweet success of conquering previously unthinkable challenges - and earning "men's wages" for it.