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<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>Sisters of The Brotherhood struggle for equality<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781592137374&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="1518_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><!--none//--><h1>Live Wire</h1>
<H2>Women and Brotherhood in the Electrical Industry</H2>
<h3>Francine A. Moccio</h3>
<P>cloth 1-59213-737-7 $59.50, Aug 09, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT>
<BR> 288 pp
6x9
9 tables 8 figures
</P><BLOCKQUOTE><I>"</i>Live Wire<i> 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 </i>Live Wire<i>."</I>
<BR>—<B>Gloria Steinem</B></I></BLOCKQUOTE>
<p>In <i>Live Wire</i>, Francine Moccio brings to life forty years of public policy reform and advocacy that have failed to eliminate restricted opportunities for women in highly paid, skilled blue-collar jobs. Breaking barriers into a male-only occupation and trade, women electricians have found career opportunities in nontraditional work. Yet their efforts to achieve gender equality have also collided with the prejudice and fraternal values of brotherhood and factors that have ultimately derailed women's full inclusion.</p>
<p>By drawing instructive comparisons of women’s entrance into the electricians’ trade and its union with those of black and other minority men, Moccio’s in-depth case study brings new insights into the ways in which divisions at work along the lines of race, gender, and economic background enhance and/or inhibit inclusion. Incorporating research based on extensive primary, secondary, and archival resources, <i>Live Wire</i> contributes a much-needed examination of how sex segregation is reproduced in blue-collar occupations, while also scrutinizing the complex interactions of work, unions, leisure, and family life.</p>
<BR> <h2>Excerpt</h2><P>Excerpt available at <a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress">www.temple.edu/tempress</a></p>
<BR> <h2>Reviews</h2>
<p><I>"In this groundbreaking new book, Francine Moccio gives a detailed account of a side of women’s work and a chapter of women’s and labor history most people know very little about."</I>
<br>—<b>Marian Wright Edelman</b>, President, Children’s Defense Fund
<BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P>
Acknowledgments
<br>Introduction: Getting Wired
<br>1. Brotherhood: The History
<br>2. A Closer Look at Local 3
<br>3. The Struggle to Become Electricians
<br>4. On the Electrical Construction Work Site: The Sexual Charge
<br>5. Race for the Brotherhood: The Ironies of Integration
<br> 6. A Club of Her Own
<br>Conclusion: Getting Women Down to the Job Site
<br>Appendix A
<br>Appendix B
<br>Appendix C
<br>Appendix D
<br>Notes
<br>Selected References
<br>Glossary
<br>Index
</P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2>
<table><tr><td valign="top"><img src="/tempress/authors/1955_au1.gif" height="90" width="75"></td><td width="100%" valign="middle"><p><b>Francine A. Moccio</b> is Director of the Institute for Women and Work, ILR School at Cornell University.</P></td></tr></table>
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<BR><A HREF="/tempress/social.html" TARGET="_top">Community Organizing and Social Movements</a>
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