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...Steelworkers (USWA). Mary Margaret Fonow's telling of this story is important for several reasons. The USWA is a large international union, with a membership across both the United States and Canada. Because the union's membership has traditionally been blue-collar, male workers, an understanding of the development and growth of union feminism in the USWA must explore the history both of the appearance of women in "non-traditional" occupations in the steel industry, and of women's mobilization and collective identity formation as both unionists and feminists. In her book, Fonow charts how these two histories have unfolded and intertwined, drawing on both feminist and social movement theory to understand when, where, how and why women working in the steel industry were able to come together effectively to act in their own interests.

Fonow traces the often uneven and difficult struggle of women to gain...

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