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The Girls Are Coming Paperback - 1999

by Peggie Carlson


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In 1974, lured by good wages, a 22-year-old African American college student from suburban Minneapolis started work as a pipefitter trainee for Minnegasco, 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.

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  • Title The Girls Are Coming
  • Author Peggie Carlson
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Paperback
  • Pages 211
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Minnesota Historical Society Press, Saint Paul, Minnesota
  • Date 1999-08-15
  • ISBN 9780873513760 / 0873513762
  • Weight 0.54 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.98 x 5.22 x 0.66 in (20.27 x 13.26 x 1.68 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1970's
    • Cultural Region: Great Lakes
    • Cultural Region: Midwest
    • Cultural Region: Upper Midwest
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Geographic Orientation: Minnesota
    • Locality: Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-Wi
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Minneapolis (Minn.), Carlson, Peggie
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99020893
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Citations

  • Foreword, 09/01/1999, Page 56
  • Library Journal, 08/01/1999, Page 122
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