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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Fran MoccioPublisher: Temple University Press,U.S. Imprint: Temple University Press,U.S. Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.386kg ISBN: 9781592137381ISBN 10: 1592137385 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 06 August 2010 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Getting Wired 1. Brotherhood: The History 2. A Closer Look at Local 3 3. The Struggle to Become Electricians 4. On the Electrical Construction Work Site: The Sexual Charge 5. Race for the Brotherhood: The Ironies of Integration 6. A Club of Her Own Conclusion: Getting Women Down to the Job Site Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Appendix D Notes Selected References Glossary IndexReviewsIf anybody thinks for a moment the women's movement is over, he or she should go right out and buy Live Wire. Gloria Steinem This volume provides an in-depth view of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the Electrical Contractors' Association... Moccio examines reasons for women's inclusion in skilled trade occupa-tions. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Choice [This] detailed ethnography of New York's IBEW Local #3 helps us to understand why it was so difficult for women to succeed (in large numbers) in the brotherhoods... Moccio provides an in-depth analysis... [Her] training as an anthropologist enables her to provide a fine-tuned description of workplace culture in the electrical trades and how gender norms operate to disadvantage women within that culture. - New Labor Forum The author's research methods are extensive and varied... [Moccio] has contributed to this important body of literature with her level of detail in presenting the case of Local 3, with data that does more than delve into the experiences of women in the building trade as previous research has done... Live Wire contributes to research on women in non-traditional occupations and on diversity within unions, and it would be useful to those conducting research in these areas because of its rich ethnographic data and extensive reference section. Industrial & Labor Relations Review If anybody thinks for a moment the women's movement is over, he or she should go right out and buy Live Wire. Gloria Steinem This volume provides an in-depth view of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the Electrical Contractors' Association... Moccio examines reasons for women's inclusion in skilled trade occupa-tions. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Choice [This] detailed ethnography of New York's IBEW Local #3 helps us to understand why it was so difficult for women to succeed (in large numbers) in the brotherhoods... Moccio provides an in-depth analysis... [Her] training as an anthropologist enables her to provide a fine-tuned description of workplace culture in the electrical trades and how gender norms operate to disadvantage women within that culture. - New Labor Forum Live Wire is the story of every group of outsiders who has ever tried to enter the world of insiders, of women braving an all-male kingdom, and of unions that cannot succeed without women-and vice versa. In telling the stories of women electricians, Francine Moccio gives us a universal human story, an expose of why women are still only two percent of the building trades despite thirty years of trying, and a key to the mystery of why Americans are still seventy percent more likely to end up old and poor if they are female. If President Obama wants to solve the problems of poverty and our crumbling bridges and highways at the same time, he should read this book and insist that women work side by side with men. And if anybody thinks for a moment the women's movement is over, he or she should go right out and buy Live Wire. -Gloria Steinem Author InformationFrancine A. Moccio is Director of the Institute for Women and Work, ILR School at Cornell University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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