Sisters in the brotherhoods: working women organizing for equality in New York city

Sisters in the Brotherhoods is an oral-history-based study of women who have,against considerable odds, broken the gender barrier to blue-collar employment in various trades in New York City beginning in the 1970s. It is a story of the fight against deeply ingrained cultural assumptions about what constituteswomen's work, the middle-class bias of feminism, the daily grinding sexism ofmale co-workers, and the institutionalised discrimination of employers and unions. It is also the story of some gutsy women who, seeking the material rewards and personal satisfactions of skilled manual labour, have struggled to makea place for themselves among New York City's construction workers, stationaryengineers, firefighters, electronic technicians, plumbers, and transit workers. Each story contributes to an important unifying theme: the way women confronted the enormous sexism embedded in union culture and developed new organisational forms to support their struggles, including and especially the United Tradeswomen. ÍNDICE: Slave Songs as Lyric Poetry - The Theology of the Lyric Tradition in the Spirituals - Slave Songs and the Birth of African American Poetry - TheCognitive Work of the Slave Songs - Slave Songs and the American Poetry Canon- The Spirituals as Song

• ISBN: 978-1-4039-6758-9
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 304
• Fecha Publicación: 03/10/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés