American Women — Work and unions

  • The Velvet Sledgehammer: July 6, 1983

    Production reel for the July 6, 1983 episode of The Velvet Sledgehammer, hosted and produced by Eileen Zalisk. First segment is “The Utah papers,” excerpts from a journal of an ERA mission to Salt Lake City during the 1982 conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, written and read by Karen Perlman,…

  • 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: February 13, 1980

    Program contains a report on a recent women’s basketball game between the New York Stars and the Dallas Diamonds of the Women’s Basketball League and recording of Meg Christian performing “Ode to a Gym Teacher”. Next an interview with Jane Kelley, a member of the group Women in the Trades, and an excerpt from a…

  • 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…

  • The Velvet Sledgehammer: June 29, 1983

    Production reel for June 29, 1983 episode of The Velvet Sledgehammer, produced and hosted by Eileen Zalisk. Three parts: 1. “Nothing lights a fire like a dream deferred,” a series of dramatic readings on the feminist response to militarism, produced by Phaye Poliakoff & Adina Back. Blanche Jackson, Lizzie Olesker, Phaye Poliakoff and Cherise[sp?] Williams…

  • Talking to the real Norma Rae : Crystal Lee Sutton / interviewed by Bob Aldrich and Sam Kushner.

    KPFK’s labor reporters Bob Aldrich and Sam Kushner interview Crystal Lee Sutton, the textile worker who organized fellow employees despite anti-union activities of the J.P Stevens Company and others. Her experience was the model for the film Norma Rae, starring Sally Field. She discusses her background, conditions in factories, and her recent travels around the…

  • Dear brother Erika / Erika Seastrom ; interviewed by Bonnie Bellow.

    Erika Seastrom, a member for 20 years of the Printers Union, describes her life working under terrible conditions in an almost entirely male trade. In the first part of this program, Seastrom discusses her start in the printing business, the sexism she confronted on the job, her attempts to join the union, and working conditions…

  • What’s happening to the family?

    WHAT’S HAPPENING TO THE FAMILY : Produced by WBAI and Dave Metzger. Recorded on January 30 1978. CONTENT: Dave Metzger hosts Rosalind P. Petchesky (b. 1942), a Women’s Studies and Political Science professor at Ramapo College, Ellen Ross, a professor of European History and Women’s Studies at Ramapo College, and Ruth Meyerowitz, a professor of…

  • P.O.N.Y. (Prostitutes of New York): Decriminalization of Prostitution

    Iris De La Cruz, chairperson of Prostitutes of New York, interviews Yolanda Jones from Black Women for Wages for Housework and Karen Green from the New York Collective of Prostitutes. They discuss the recent joint press conference held by those groups, in addition to Lesbians for Wages for Housework and the Gay Activist Alliance, about…