Office workers — Personal narratives.

  • The Velvet Sledgehammer: October 12, 1983

    Production reel from the October 12, 1983 episode of The Velvet Sledgehammer, hosted and produced by Eileen Zalisk. The first segment is “Computers and office work,” tapes edited and selected from the 10th annual The Scholar and the Feminist Conference held Saturday, April 3rd, 1983 at Barnard College, and focusing on the question of technology.…

  • Women Office Workers (W.O.W.) speak out

    Women office workers, members of the group W.O.W. (Women Office Workers) tell their experiences during a speak out entitled “Women Workers Speak Out” recorded in the fall 1973. From the April 1973 WBAI Folio: “Last fall, women workers gathered together to speak out about their jobs. A packing house worker, a waitress, office workers, household…

  • Life in the female job ghetto : service and office work / produced by Peggy Irene Bray, Maggie Geddes, and Karla Tonella.

    A documentary that takes a look at women’s place in the paid labor force. Features audio of members of Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union Local 2, protesting the mental and physical brutality of their work in San Francisco, July 1980, as well as interviews with San Francisco hotel maids describing their…