Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

FEMINISM

Mary Rathke, steel hauler

Laura Pfandler, pipefitter

Diana Clarke, fire fighter

Elaine Canfield, carpenter

Irene Hull, shipwright/bindery worker

OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH

Angela Summer, plumber

Kathryn Brooke, soldier/long-haul trucker/bus driver

Teresa Selfe, sailor

Nora Quealey, truck assembly line worker

RACE

Lydia Vasquez, machine operator

Geraldine Walker, shipscaler

Amy Kelley, machinist

Katie Murray, sheet metal worker

UNIONS

Jo Ann Johnson, painter

Marge Kirk, concrete-truck driver

Barbara Shaman, outside machinist

Laura Sarvis, sawyer/bench worker

Linda Lanham, union organizer

Anna Brinkley, electrician

FAMILY

Arlene Tupper, transit supervisor

Kathy Baerney, telephone frameman

Michelle Sanborn, label printer

Beth Gedney, tugboat mate

Sylvia Lange, gillnetter

Beverly Brown, papermaker

Index