Women workers.

  • Women’s occupational health: November 10, 1980

    The first in a series of programs on women’s occupational safety and health with Dr. Jeanne Stellman and Mary Sue Henifin of the Women’s Occupational Health Resource Center. Features listener call-ins.

  • Velvet Sledgehammer: March 28, 1984[?]

    Production reel for the March 28 (1984?) episode of The Velvet Sledgehammer. Contains a women’s news segment, “Hot Flashes” with Karen Barrett of Majority Report. Next is a women’s health update with Eileen Zalisk. She interviews Ann Teicher, co-chair of the Coalition for the International Day of Action and Karen Stamm of the Committee to…

  • Documentary on the Lowell Mill Girls and early textile mill workers

    Documentary on women labor reform pioneers in the United States with a focus on the Lowell Mills Girls who struggled for better working conditions, wages, hours in Lowell, Massachusetts in the 1800s. Documentary includes music, readings, and narration.

  • Kathryn Kish Sklar speaks on married women workers

    Kathryn Kish Sklar speaks on the radical impact married women workers, and their ability to financially support themselves and their families, is making on family life and working life. Yet there remains a lack of change in their political status. This is possibly a lecture she gave at UCLA, but date and location of speech…

  • 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.…

  • The Velvet Sledgehammer: November 16, 1983 (Part 2 only)

    Production reel for November 16, 1983 episode of The Velvet Sledgehammer, hosted and produced by Eileen Zalisk. This is Part 2, Part 1 is missing. First, Eileen Zalisk discusses women in Ghana with Gwendolyn Mikell Ramey, professor of Anthropology at Georgetown University. Next, WBAI’s Kathy Ann Kersey interviews Dr. Mary Calderone, M.D., adjunct professor at…

  • The Velvet Sledgehammer: December 23, 1981

    Aircheck of The Velvet Sledgehammer from December 23, 1981. Hosted and produced by Judy Pasternak. Today’s episode about women and work. The first segment is Mirror Image “reflections of working women past, present and future” by BJ Kling about Artemisia, the 4th-century Persian admiral, and her 20th century counterpart Roxanna Schuchman, first woman member of…

  • How to organize your workplace.

    Panel discussion which covers successful efforts to organize women workers into women’s caucuses and/or unions on the job. Panelists are Julie Hower, Women’s Action Committee at ABC; Nancy Roberts, Founder, MacMillan Women’s Group; Margie Albert, union organizer, District 65; and Frances Hubbard, Vice President, 1199 Hospital Worker’s Union. Likely the same recording as BC2196.18. This…

  • 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…

  • Design process Olivetti, 1908-1978 / Nathan Shapira ; interviewed by Clare Spark.

    UCLA professor discusses industrial design, the role of the user in design, corporate patronage, the role of women in the Olivetti corporation, and the Olivetti exhibition which he prepared at UCLA. Also a discussion of the new satellite technology for public radio.