American Women — Work and unions

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

    Iris De La Cruz interviews artist and activist Annie Sprinkle, who describes her experience making pornography as the “good life.” She describes how she came to work in pornography and her experience with Linda Lovelace. Sprinkle discusses censorship and women against pornography, and is asked about her family’s response to her making pornography. Contains listener…

  • Sojourner’s Journal: The role of the Black woman worker

    The role of the Black woman worker. An episode of Sojournour’s Journal produced by Yasmine Pierre. Date unknown. Yasmine Pierre interviews Rosemary Mealy of the Empire State Labor College and journalist Esther Curry about the history of Black women’s work in America.

  • Lesbian and gay employment rights conference / produced by Katherine Davenport.

    A recording of the Lesbian and Gay Employment Rights Conference, sponsored by The Lesbian Rights Project at the Hastings Law School in San Francisco on June 15, 1985. This is a one hour program consisting of six panelist discussions of various aspects of the gay employment discrimination issue. The panel is hosted by Roberta Ackenberg,…

  • The boycott of J.P. Stevens / produced by Celeste Wesson

    Program produced by WBAI and Bill O’Neill. Recorded on July 8, 1977. Interview with Barbara Werthheimer, author of the book, We Were There: The Story of Working Women, discussion on textile workers and labor history. Guests Marva Watkins, J.P. Stevens worker from Montgomery, Alabama and Pam Woywood, ACTWU boycott organizer, and Sister Jeannine Maynard, NYC…

  • Consciousness raising-WBAI (Episode 1 of 4): Housework

    This is one of four episodes of WBAI’s first Consciousness-raising series, originally titled: “Consciousness-raising: An examination of women’s issues.” This discussion focuses on the issue of housework, particularly the balance of housework between husband and wife, and what these women learned from their mothers and other wives. This recording was possibly broadcast with a series…

  • The artist as entrepreneur / Rosemary E. Reed Miller ; interviewed by Elaine Heffernan.

    Rosemary E. Reed Miller, owner and president of an accessory and clothing store, Toast and Strawberries in Washington,DC. discusses economic alternatives for artists. Host: Elaine Heffernan. Engineer: Naomi Eftis.

  • Harlan county USA / Nancy Barker and Hart Perry

    Barry Parker from WPFW’s Film Exchange interviews Nancy Barker and Hart Perry, respectively the director of editing and principal cinematographer of Barbara Kopple’s 1977 documentary Harlan County USA. The two discuss how they came to be involved in the film’s production and about the scene in the film where strikebreakers attacked the film crew.

  • How to organize your workplace.

    Panel discussion which covers successful efforts to organize women workers into women’s caucuses and/or unions on the job. Panelists are Julie Hower, Women’s Action Committee at ABC; Nancy Roberts, Founder, MacMillan Women’s Group; Margie Albert, union organizer, District 65; and Frances Hubbard, Vice President, 1199 Hospital Worker’s Union. Likely the same recording as BC2196.18. This…

  • Union Maids / Vicky Starr aka Stella Nowicki; produced by Sophie’s Parlor Media Collective.

    Interview with Vicky Starr (1916-2009), featured as “Stella Nowicki” in the documentary film “Union Maids” (1976) about three Chicago women labor union activists from the 1930s. The film was based on the three women from Chicago (Stella Nowicki, Kate Hyndman, and Sylvia Woods) in the labor history book Rank and File by Staughton and Alice…

  • Geology, sexism and racism / produced by Rich Pollack.

    The field of geology has long been considered a club with the petro, coal and mining companies. But it’s exclusivity goes beyond that. It’s heavily all white and all male. This program looks at the effect of this fact on all of us. Discussion on the sexism and racism within the field of geology with…