We'll Call You If We Need You : : Experiences of Women Working Construction / / Susan Eisenberg.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Eisenberg, Susan,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Edition: With a New Preface
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (246 p.)

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. In this book, full of the raw drama and humor found on a construction site, Eisenberg gracefully weaves the voices of thirty women who worked as carpenters, electricians, ironworkers, painters, and plumbers to examine why their numbers remained small. Speaking as if to a friend, women recall their decisions to enter the trades, their first days on the job, and their strategies to gain training and acceptance. They assess with thought, passion, and twenty years' perspective 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the 2018 Printing -- Acknowledgments -- Thumbnail Sketch -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. Footings -- Pioneering -- CHAPTER TWO. Doors, Windows, Locks -- CHAPTER THREE. Crossing the Threshold: First Days -- CHAPTER FOUR. Ain't Got to Show You Shit -- CHAPTER FIVE. Marking Gender Boundaries: Porn, Piss, Power Tools -- CHAPTER SIX. (and yet) Passions -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Exceptional Men -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Balancing Alone across an I-Beam -- Settling In -- CHAPTER NINE. Bucket or Bathroom ? -- CHAPTER TEN. Carrying Weight -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. Customized Treatment: Women of Color -- CHAPTER TWELVE. Ceilings and Access Panels: Economics -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Ceilings and Access Panels: Leadership -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN. Expansion Joints -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN. Punch List -- The Tradeswomen. Who̕ s Where -- Record of Interviews