Live! From New York: Women construction workers in their own words

Labor History

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 179-189

  Latour, Jane ^a  

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EID: 0039740047     PISSN: 0023656X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00236560120047752     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. "The goals and timetables for hiring women on federally funded construction projects were set by the DOL under President Jimmy Carter on a trade-by-trade basis. These goals were to increase over a three-year period to 6.9% of the workforce. Additional regulations established that women should make up between a fifth and a fourth of each apprenticeship class ... The regulations established in 1978 blueprinted a course for the construction workforce just past the start of the millennium to become about one quarter female, making the occupation no longer a nontraditional one for women. This is not what happened. Women's overall percentage of the construction workforce grew to roughly two percent in the early 1980s and remained there." Susan Eisenberg, We'll Call You If We Need You. Experiences of Women Working Construction (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998).
2. Building Barriers: Discrimination in New York City's Construction Trades. Report by the New York City Commission on Human Rights, 1993.
3. Quoted in Eisenberg, 191.
4. Interview with Irene Soloway, March 6, 1995.
5. The interviews are part of Oral History NS-#20, "Gender Relations in the Building Trades," at the Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University (NYU).
6. Interview with Ann Jochems, July 26, 1990.
7. Interview with Janine Blackwelder, December 17, 1994.
8. Interview with Barbara Trees, June 2, 1995.
9. Interview with Yvone Maiton, July 12, 1990.
10. Interview with Elaine Ward, March 29, 1997.
11. Interview on March 6, 1995, with Evan Ruderman, Irene Soloway and Lois Ross, on the subject of United Tradeswomen.
12. Interview with Rebecca Lurie by Ann Jochems, February 28, 1995.
13. Interview with Marty Pottenger by the author and Ann Jochems, September 27, 1994.
14. Labor and The New Millennium: Class, Vision and Change.
15. Interview with Janine Blackwelder, Ft. Greene, Brooklyn, August 1, 1990.