Jane Ellen LaTour (May 3, 1946 – April 3, 2023) was an American labor activist, educator, and journalist in New York City who advocated union democracy and documented the role of women in traditionally male-dominated trades. She was the author of Sisters in the Brotherhoods: Working Women Organizing for Equality in New York City. A two-time recipient of the Mary Heaton Vorse Award for labor journalism, she was an associate editor for Public Employee Press, the publication of District 37 of AFSCME, and contributed to numerous other publications. For many years, she was the director of the Women's Project for the Association for Union Democracy, and served on the boards of the New York Labor History Association and the Women's Press Collective. (From Wikipedia)
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LaTour, Jane, contrib.: Alone in a Crowd: Women in the Trades Tell Their Stories (originally published 1985; this edition Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018), by Jean Reith Schroedel (multiple formats with commentary at Temple)
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