American Women — Work and unions

  • Women’s legal clinic: April 9, 1979-Sex discrimination in employment

    Women’s legal clinic. Broadcast live. Topic: Sex discrimination in employment. Hosted by Betty Levinson, Eve Cary and Judith Levin and another unnamed host discuss the Lochner vs. New York Supreme Court case (1905), which involved a New York law that limited the number of hours that a baker could work each day to ten, and…

  • Women’s legal clinic: May 7, 1979-Legal rights related to pregnancy

    The topic of this week’s Women’s Legal Clinic is pregnancy, disability, and women’s legal rights with respect to pregnancy. Hosts are Eve Cary and Judy Levin. Cary is an attorney with Legal Aid Society of New York and the author of the NYCLU Guide to Women’s Rights in New York State. Levin is an attorney…

  • Women’s legal clinic: July 7, 1980

    Judy Levin and Betty Levinson review important legal cases of the 1970s. Begins with discussion of a recent Supreme Court case concerning abortion, McRae v. Harris, which held that states participating in Medicaid were not required to provide funding for abortions, then reviews precedents of 1970s. Features a listener call-in portion. Edited and approved for…

  • 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…

  • The economics of oppression (Episode 5 of 7)

    Joan Jordan, a former factory worker who was replaced by automation and is now a student at San Francisco State College, speaks on “The economics of oppression” at a teach-in on the oppression of women at San Francisco State College on December 10, 1969. In this discussion, Jordan reveals statistics about how large the female…

  • Working class women (Episode 6 of 7)

    Two talks about “Working class women” given at a teach-in on the oppression of women at San Francisco State College on December 10, 1969. The first is by Lillian House, a member of the United Electrical Workers which was on strike against her employer, the General Electric Company, at the time she spoke. The second…

  • International Woman’s Day Coalition of Labor Union Women

    The International Women’s Day program for 1981 features four members of the Coalition of Labor Union Women: Ruth Miller, President of the Los Angeles Chapter; Linda Paquette, editor of Chapter Newsletter, CLUW; Rose Unger, California Federation of Teachers union member; and Cheryl Parisi, American Federation of State-County Municipal Employees. Miller discusses the mission and programs…

  • 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…