THICK SKIN: FIELD NOTES FROM A SISTER IN THE BROTHERHOOD, is a deep dive into the secret language and hidden culture of one of the most esoteric heavy construction trades: Boilermaking.For more than two decades, Hilary Peach worked as a transient welder--and one of the only women-- in the Boilermakers Union. Distilled from a vast cache of journals, notes, and keen observations, Thick Skin follows Peach from the West Coast shipyards and pulp mills of British Columbia, through the Alberta tar sands and the Ontario rust belt, to the colossal power generating stations of the Eastern Seaboard of the United States. At times edging up to the surreal, Thick Skin is a collection of strange stories carefully told, in tenderness and ferocity, for anyone who has spent time in a trade, or is curious about the unseen world of industrial construction.Literary Nonfiction. Essay. Women's Studies.
✔ Author(s): Hilary Peach
✔ Title: Thick Skin: Field Notes from a Sister in the Brotherhood
✔ Rating : 5 out of 5 base on (29 reviews)
✔ ISBN-10: 177214195X
✔ Language: English
✔ Format ebook: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, HTML and MOBI
✔ Device compatibles: Android, iOS, PC and Amazon Kindle
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