Alone in a Crowd: Women in the Trades Tell Their Stories

By Jean Reith Schroedel

Book Overview

The problems of pipefitting and pregnancy, carpentry and child care, truck driving and femininity - these peculiar parings characterize the lives of an unsung group of women. This title features 25... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877223785
• ISBN13: 9780877223788
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.

Customer Reviews

No Girls Allowed

Jean Schroedel(a courageous trailblazer) takes on a task that is well overdue, even in 1985. Here are 25 self stories of women who wanted a piece of the forbidden pie (a nontraditional job/trade). Pay attention to what happened to them. They are the backbone of women's freedom. Our daughters and granddaughters owe them more than it is possible to measure. All women are standing on their shoulders. I am not in Schroedel's book, but I was one of those pioneers...a "forgotten first" in 1978. I was the first woman in the nation (and other nations, as well....it was impossible to find records)to enter into a model/patternmaker 5 yr apprenticeship for a midwest tractor industry. These women contributed much more than most people can comprehend. Reading this book will open your eyes. Thank you, Jean Schroedel!