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Willa Cantillon, born in 1959 to an Irish Catholic family, is a native San Franciscan. From an early age she bucked the cultural expectations of a young girl and started learning about various manual skills. She apprenticed as an electrician as a young woman, taking jobs retrofitting the Sheraton Palace Hotel and other structures in the wake of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. In 2010 she was hired as a journeyman electrician to work on the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge. In this interview, Cantillon describes the work of an electrician in bridge building, gender politics in the trades, and other related issues.

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Title
Willa Cantillon: The Bay Bridge Oral History Project
Creator
Cantillon, Willa, interviewee
Redman, Sam, interviewer
Meeker, Martin, interviewer
Published
Berkeley, CA, Regional Oral History Office, 2013
Full Collection Name
Bay Bridge Oral Histories
Subject (Topic)
Natural Resources, Land Use, and the Environment
Commerce, Industry, and Labor
Type
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Oral histories.
Archive
The Bancroft Library Oral History Center
Note
Cantillon, Willa. "Willa Cantillon: The Bay Bridge Oral History Project." Interview by Sam Redman and Martin Meeker in 2013. Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 2013.
Interview date(s) 2013
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