We'll Call You If We Need You: Experiences of Women Working Construction (with a New Preface)

by Susan Eisenberg

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801433606
• ISBN13: 9780801433603
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

An American Classic

Susan Eisenberg honored our literature class at UMass/Boston with a poetry reading. This wonderful poet constructs vivid images which are rooted in her experience on the front lines of the Women's Movement. As a man, I didn't really expect to identify with her work. MEA CULPA. If you've ever had a dream of better life, a better place, a better YOU - then this is the author for you. My dad, a retired lineman and Eisenberg's union brother in the IBEW, can't get enough of her work. A true American classic.