The following is a guest post by Aimee Loiselle, author of Beyond Norma Rae: How Puerto Rican and Southern White Women Fought for a Place in the American Working Class, which tells a history of women industrial workers in struggles over working conditions and pop culture in the late-twentieth century. Beyond Norma Rae is now available wherever books are sold. The successful publication of a book results from a deliberated and yet totally unpredictable convergence of factors. Access to research and travel funds, household and health conditions, trends in one’s research field, relationships with mentors and colleagues, family...