The girls are coming / Peggie Carlson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carlson, Peggie, 1951-

Series:

Midwest reflections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Carlson, Peggie, 1951-.

Carlson, Peggie.

African American women--Minnesota--Minneapolis--Biography.

African American women.

Pipe fitters--Minnesota--Minneapolis--Biography.

Pipe fitters.

Sex role in the work environment.

Minneapolis (Minn.)--Biography.

Minneapolis (Minn.).

Sex role in the work environment--Minnesota--Minneapolis.

Minnesota--Minneapolis.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

203 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press, [1999]

Summary:

In 1974, Lured By Good Wages, a 22-year-old African American college student from suburban Minneapolis started work as a pipefitter trainee for Minnegasgo, a Minnesota natural-gas utility. Peggie Samples was one of the first four women hired by the company into non-secretarial jobs after the passage of the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972. On the job, she and her beautiful blond friend Sonny met men who were hostile, men who were helpful, and men who were simply flummoxed to find "girls" in their midst. "S'long as a guy does his job, " one told her, "it don't matter ta me if he's a gal."

This memoir is the sometimes hilarious story of how they learned to work together -- and what they all learned about stereotypes.

ISBN:

0873513754

0873513762

OCLC:

41070701