Women employees

  • History of women workers and women in the labor movement

    Historian Dr. Blanche Wiesen Cook interviews historian Dr. Alice Kessler Harris about women and work and women in the labor movement. Harris talks about challenging the notion of work as being “work for pay” and talks about both women’s household labor and women as wage workers, both historically and in contemporary times. Harris’ books includes…

  • Health and safety in the automated office: VDTs / produced by Mara Liasson

    This short documentary examines the impact of the machine that best represents the automation of office work: the video display terminal. The program includes music, sound effects, and interviews with office workers and female trade unionists in San Francisco, as well as experts in the field of occupational safety and health. Health topics include stress,…