American Women — Work and unions

  • Jewish women in New York

    Tapes selected from a panel on immigrant Jewish women which was part of a conference on Culture and Community among New York Jews which took place January 27-29, 1979, sponsored by the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research in cooperation with the Center for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University and made possible by a…

  • Where’s the rub?

    This program is an investigation of the proposed licensing of massage parlors in New York in 1973. From the folio: City Council meetings held in December 1972? on massage parlors indicated that the majority of the Midtown places specialize in things other than the traditional massage. The mayor, pressured by real estate interests to get…

  • People’s law update: Affirmative action – where do we go from here?

    Bob Lefcourt speaks with Judith Layzer from the office of Contract Compliance of New York City; Kathy Gmeiner, National Lawyers Guild affirmative action task force; and Victor Goode, national director of National Conference of Black Lawyers. “People’s law update” was a sub-series of the WBAI series “Bread and roses.”

  • Working women / produced by Bonnie Bellow and Brett Harvey

    A program about women’s work in American. This program contains portions of two speak-outs held recently in New York City, one of women office workers (see BC1717) and one on women’s work (possibly BC1722). The program was produced by Bonnie Bellow and Brett Harvey, with special assistance from Judy Sherman, Nanette Rainote, and Susan Sheftel,…

  • Women’s occupational health: December 15, 1980

    Another in a series of programs on women and occupational safety and health produced by Dr. Jeanne Stellman, executive director of the Women’s Occupational Health Resource Center and Dr. Mary Sue Henifin, an associate of the Center. The topic of this program is the health of women office workers. Guests are Dr. Karen Nussbaum, former…

  • Women’s occupational health: August 10, 1981

    Aircheck of Everywomanspace episode in a series on women’s occupational safety and health, hosted by Dr. Jeanne Stellman, executive director of the Women’s Occupational Health Resource Center at Columbia University, and Mary Sue Henifin, resource coordinator for the Center. Tonight’s focus is on the hidden health hazards in the work that many women do, e.g.…

  • Trying to survive: prostitution and women’s work

    The third in a series of three documentaries about prostitution and women’s work (The Archives has only this part). This episode deals with the legal status of prostitution. Program produced by Adina Back, Phaye Poliakoff, Barbara Solow, and Marianne Connolly. Introduced by Eileen Zalisk. Program was financially assisted by the National Endowment of the Humanities…

  • Everywomanspace: November 1, 1982

    Aircheck of Everywomanspace with Angela Gilliam from November 1, 1982. The guests are Sonja Dean Williams and Cecilia McCall from the group Women for Racial and Economic Equality (WREE). The theme for the evening’s discussion is childcare versus warfare. Includes listener phone calls.

  • Women’s occupational safety: February 9, 1981

    Women’s Occupational Health and Safety hour hosted by Dr. Jeanne Stellman and Mary Sue Henifin. In this episode, Mary Sue Henifin interviews co-host Dr. Jeanne Stellman, Associate Professor for Public Health at Columbia University and Executive Director of the Women’s Occupational Health Resource Center and Dr. Steven Stellman, Assistant Vice President for Epidemiology at the…

  • Blanche Cooke on Crystal Eastman

    Blanche Cooke talks about the life and work of Crystal Eastman (1881-1928), a radical, feminist, and socialist, and an attorney who graduated from the NYU law school in 1907. She was the first women New York State commissioner advocating for workers compensation, and she founded the Women’s International Peace Movement, now called the Women’s International…