Natinal Committee on Household Employment

  • The Household worker and the employment agency / produced by Bonnie Bellow.

    Part of a series entitled “The Household Worker” that investigates the problems faced by household workers (broadcast on WBAI in December 1972). This episode reports on employment agencies that are currently bringing women from the Caribbean Islands to work as domestic workers for low wages and few benefits. Includes interviews with Irene Lord, former household…

  • Household workers / produced by Nanette Rainone and Bonnie Bellow.

    This report is on the recent and unprecedented organization of household workers, and includes interviews recorded during the 2nd National Committee on Household Employment (NCHE) conference held in New York (ca. October 1972). At the conference, six hundred household workers met to hear speeches from the likes of Gloria Steinem and Shirley Chisholm. There are…