Description
Book SynopsisSisters of The Brotherhood struggle for equality
Trade Review"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 exposé 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
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
Index
