We Cant Eat Prestige: The Women Who Organized Harvard

Encouraged by the feminist movement of the early 1970s, a group of women (and a few men) began what would become a decades-long struggle to organize staff employees at Harvard. John Hoerr tells this story from the points of view of both Harvard administrators and union organizers. With unusual access to its meetings, leaders, and files, he examines the unique culture of a female-led union from the inside.