American Women — Work and unions
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The Velvet Sledgehammer: July 2, 1980: WREE Seminar on Racism
Production reel for the July 2, 1980 episode of the Velvet Sledgehammer. Contains excerpts from the Women for Racial and Economic Equality (WREE) Seminar on Racism- a conference on racial discrimination (1980). First speaker (unnamed) introduces the seminar. Second speaker (unnamed). The second speaker (unnamed, possibly South African), asking for world to enforce U.N. mandate…
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Women’s legal clinic: February 3, 1980
Everywomanspace: Women’s legal clinic. Reproductive Hazards in the Workplace. February 3, 1980 with attorney Judy Levin, law student Paula Smith, and WBAI’s Judy Pasternak, discussing forced sterilization of women who work in hazardous workplaces including the Dupont plant. Needs editing before broadcast.
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The Velvet Sledgehammer: March 5, 1978
The Velvet Sledgehammer, March 5, 1978, hosted by Rose Jordan. Begins with a song Cassie Culver, then Judy Pasternak presents the Women’s community bulletin board for the week of March 5, International Women’s Day week. Includes a rundown of programs to be broadcast on WBAI for International Women’s Day March 8, 1978, and the schedule…
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Labor fights for the ERA
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Coal country women / produced by Mary Kasamatsu
This is a three-part series on women in Appalachia in the 1970s: mining disasters, their lives as wives and mothers of miners, as miners themselves, and on life in mining country. Produced by Mary Kasamatsu, with funds provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, through National Public Radio’s Satellite Program Development Fund. Technical assistance by…
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Our city, our lives: Women’s work, women’s health- Jeanne Stellman interviewed by Celeste Wesson
Jeanne Stellman interviewed by Celeste Wesson for the Public Affairs Department. of WBAI, NY. Stellman is the author of “Women’s Work, Women’s Health: Myths and Realities” about women and occupational health including stress. Stellman discusses the women’s changing role as child-bearers and the shift of the means of production from the home to the office.…
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Physicist Freda Salzman interviewed by Eileen Zalisk
On this episode of Women in Science, Eileen Zalisk interviews physicist Freda Salzman (1927 – 1981), who works as a professor of physics at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. She discusses what lead her to a career in physics and her experiences and struggles as a woman working in the sciences.
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Sophie Cohen speaks on the 1913 Paterson, New Jersey silk strike
This program is a talk give by Sophie Cohen, IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) worker who talks about the 1913 Paterson, NJ silk strike and the life of a worker in those days. She is introduced by author Sam Dogal[sp?]. Recorded at the Alternate U and produced by Nina Mende for WBAI. Previoulsy cataloged…
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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…