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BOOKS BY/FOR TRADESWOMEN
*We’ll Call You If We Need You: Experiences of Women Working Construction (Cornell, 2018). by Susan Eisenberg
*Stanley’s Girl (Cornell, 2018) by Susan Eisenberg
*Pioneering (Cornell, 1998) by Susan Eisenberg
*Also, bulk orders can be purchased at discount for any combo of these books from Cornell University Press. 100 copies of We’ll Call You were purchased at great price for Women Build Boston! Contact Susan Eisenberg for details.
High Voltage Women is a book about some of the first women who did high voltage linework at Seattle City Lights.
Live Wire by Francine Moccio
Thick Skin: Field Notes of a Sister in the Brotherhood by Hillary Peach
Hard-Hatted Women: Stories of Struggle and Success in the Trades by Molly Martin
Wonder Woman Electric to the Rescue: Memoir, Essays and Short Stories by a Trailblazing Tradeswoman by Molly Martin
Journeywoman: Swinging a Hammer in a Man’s World by Kate Braid
Rust, A Memoir of Steel and Grit by Eliese Colette Goldbach
Hammer Head, The Making of a Carpenter by Nina Mac Laughlin
Mining Coal and Undermining Gender by Jessica Smith Rolston
Dirt Work, An Education in the Woods by Christine Byle
Sister in the Brotherhoods by Jane LaTour
The Women’s Movement Against Sexual Harassment by Carrie N. Baker
Freedom Is Not Enough, The Opening of the American Workplace by Nancy MacLean
Breaking Out of the Pink-Collar Ghetto: Policy Solutions for Non-College Women by Sharon H. Mastracci
Class Action: Lois Jenson and the Landmark Case that Changed Sexual Harassment Law by Clara Bingham & Laura Leedy Gansler
Job Training for Women, The Promise and Limits of Public Policies by Sharon L. Harlan and Ronnie J. Steinberg
Working Construction by Kris Paap, ILR Press/Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 2006
Against the Grain: A Carpentry Manual for Women by Dale McCormick
Alone in a Crowd: Women in the Trades Tell Their Stories
Jean Reith Schroedel, Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1985
Women of Steel, Female Blue-Collar Workers in the Basic Steel Industry
Kay Deaux and Joseph C. Ullman, Praeger Publishers, New York, 1983
Blue-Collar Women: Pioneers on the Male Frontier
Mary Lindenstein Walshok, Anchor Press/Doubleday, New York, 1981
High-Paying Blue-Collar Jobs for Women
Larry J. Ricci, Ballentine Books, New York, 1981
Blue-Collar Jobs or Women
Muriel Lederer, E.P. Dutton, New York, 1979
Poetry
Stanley’s Girl, Poems
Susan Eisenberg, ILR Press/Cornell University Press, 2018.
Pioneering, Poems from the Construction Site
Susan Eisenberg, ILR Press/Cornell University Press, 1998
Perpetual Care
Susan Eisenberg, Third Rail Press, 2016
Turning Left to the Ladies
Kate Braid, Palimpsest Press, Ontario, Canada, 2009
Sugar String
Sue Doro, Fast Print, Oakland, CA, 2008;
Blue Collar Goodbyes (Hardback and paperback)
Sue Doro, Papier-Mache Press, Watsonville, CA, 1992
Heart, Home & Hard Hats,
Sue Doro, Midwest Villages & Voices, Minneapolis, MN, 1986