American Women — Work and unions

  • Women speak out against fascism (Episode 3 of 12, Part 2)

    A panel at the conference called by the Black Panther Party the weekend of July 18-20 in Oakland. Panel speakers are Roberta Alexander, Marlene Dixon, Evelyn Harris, Carol Henry, Penny Nakatsu, and Carol Thomas. Panel is introduced by Marie Johnson. Originally aired during KPFA’s Open Hour, 1969-08-11. Reel two of two.

  • Charlotte Bunch: organizing in the ’80s / interviewed by Karla Tonella

    Charlotte Bunch talks about women organizing in the Reagan years. The mobilization organization needed in the changing political climate, the new theory that is needed, how we can test our politics are some of the topics covered in this interview conducted with Karla Tonella, KPFA, 9/81. Feminist strategies, organizations, and coalitions in the 1980s are…

  • Women on the global assembly line / produced by Mary Sinclair and Maggie Geddes

    This half-hour documentary focuses on a dual theme: the increasingly internationalized manufacturing strategy of multinational corporations, especially in Mexico and Hong Kong, and their equally strategic employment of women, both here and in the Third World. Explores why they often hire women, especially minority women, and what working conditions are like for women working on…

  • Melody Ermachild, private eye / interviewed by Philip Maldari

    Melody Ermachild, a forty-year old mother, describes how she got started doing private investigation, who she worked for, the kind of work she does (interviews, research, research in libraries, skip tracing, polling juries), some of the famous cases she’s worked on (Geronimo Pratt, Larry Layton/Jonestown, Hell’s Angels), and her opinions about the nature of the…

  • Cancer / produced by Michael Singsen and Peggy Stein. (Episode 3 of 5)

    Cancer–it can be caused by the work we do. But how much? What causes it? Who is to blame? What is safe exposure to a carcinogen? What is OSHA’s involvement? Heard in this report are Dr. Samuel Epstein, professor of occupational medicine at the University of Illinois Medical School and author of Politics Of Cancer;…

  • Genetic hazards / produced by Michael Singsen and Mary Shinoff. (Episode 4 of 5)

    How do the jobs we do affect our unborn generations? What are genetic toxins? How can we protect our children? Why is this not just a women’s issue? How can this issue be used to discriminate against women in the workplace? This program explores all of these topics, plus the American Cyanamid Plant in Willow…

  • 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,…

  • Rosie, the red riveter / William Mandel.

    Inspired by viewing the documentary The Life And Times Of Rosie The Riveter, Mandel explores the topics of women in the workforce, women in typically male-filled jobs, and unions, contrasting the status of women in the United States with that of women in the Soviet Union. Linking of fight for women’s rights in the work…

  • Interview with Ukranian woman manager / William Mandel

    23rd Annual International Women’s Day Broadcast in this series. Translated interview (English on one stereo track Russian on the other, balance makes English louder and clearer over Russian on sets without speaker control) with Svetlana Ivanovna, a 42-year-old female manager of clothing factory with 3800 workers in Ukraine (Slavic ethnic republic of USSR). Her father…

  • Women speak out against fascism (Episode 3 of 12)

    A panel at the conference called by the Black Panther Party the weekend of July 18-20 in Oakland. Panel speakers are Roberta Alexander, Marlene Dixon, Evelyn Harris, Carol Henry, Penny Nakatsu, and Carol Thomas. Panel is introduced by Marie Johnson. Originally aired during KPFA’s Open Hour, 1969-08-11.