Building trades–United States

  • School of hard knocks or, mallets with forethought

    Jan Albert hosts his program about the resumed construction (after a 37-year of hiatus) of the Cathedral of St. John the Devine in Manhattan, NY. Local men and women are being trained in the ancient art of stone masonry, and are well into the job of hand shaping the thousands of stones it will take…

  • Interview with a female apprentice plumber

    Interview by Judy Sackoff with a woman in the construction trades, “Judy,” a second-year apprentice in plumber’s union.

  • The Velvet Sledgehammer: February 13, 1980

    Program contains a report on a recent women’s basketball game between the New York Stars and the Dallas Diamonds of the Women’s Basketball League and recording of Meg Christian performing “Ode to a Gym Teacher”. Next an interview with Jane Kelley, a member of the group Women in the Trades, and an excerpt from a…