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Sisters of The Brotherhood struggle for equality

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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

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

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Francine A. Moccio is Director of the Institute for Women and Work, ILR School at Cornell University.

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