American Women — Work and unions

  • The telephone voices / produced by Jim Higgins

    This program contains interviews with several Southwestern Bell directory assistance operators, expressing what types of calls they receive and relating experiences about their work. Also includes an interview with the woman whose voice is heard on all recorded messages. Produced by Jim Higgins for KPFT. Broadcast on KPFK, April 25, 1977; KPFA, September 29, 1977.

  • Tribute to Barbara Nestor by her daughter Dorothy Healey

    This program is Dorothy Healey’s personal tribute to her mother Barbara Bass Nestor, who died November 23, 1979 at the age of 95 (quickly, of a heart attack). Includes the broadcast of a September 1974 aircheck of Dorothy’s interview of her mother when she was 90 (33 min.) The songs heard at end of interview…

  • Which side are you on? / produced by Susan Anderson.

    Susan Anderson hosts an episode of “Richland woman” in honor of International Women’s Day, March 8, 1978. She presents music of the working woman for the holiday, and the program was rebroadcast for Labor Day that year. Songs heard on the program are: Barbara Dane, “Working class woman”; Carmen Moreno and Los Lobos, “Corrido de…

  • International working women’s day / Neda Azad

    Using Rosa Luxemburg as a model of what women can do, Iranian feminist Neda Azad explains how Luxemburg broke from the reformist party and participated in the anti-war movement in Germany at the turn of the century. Azad points to the work of feminists who carry on the tradition in 1981. She begins by pointing…

  • The Occupational health status of women / Vilma Hunt.

    Talk on the occupational health status of women at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science on January 28, 1975. The speakers are Vilma Hunt, Associate Professor of Biological Science at Penn State University; Cora Marrett and Andrea Hricko, co-authors of a research paper: “Women’s occupational health: the rise and…

  • The rights of employed and unemployed women / moderated by Viv Sutherland.

    Panel discussion on the rights of employed and unemployed women. Participants are Laura Sager, Women’s Law Clinic at New York University; David Raff, Professor with the Employment Law Clinic, New York University School of Law; and Marilyn Brook, Worker’s Defense League. Recoded at NOW-NYC, 47 E. 19th St., New York, NY 10003. Produced by Viv…

  • Women in publishing / produced by Viv Sutherland.

    Presentations by eight feminist representatives of women’s groups at several major publishing houses in New York City, followed by a discussion on the status of women in publishing. Bonnie Harrington from the National Organization for Women introduces the panel on sexism in the work places where text books are produced. Panelists include: Liz Gordon from…

  • Let us now praise laboring men and women

    A collage of labor news, history, music, poetry and comment. Produced by Jim Berland of KPFK’s Public Affairs Department. Interviews by Mike Davis, Sam Kushner, Heather Dashner and Jim Berland. History and commentary written and read by Neil Goldberg. Section on Woody Guthrie written and read by Judy and Vic Wolfenstein. ‘This Land Is Your…

  • Why PASTA-MoMA?

    Susan Bertram, Rose Kolmetz and Joan Rabenau, employees at the Museum of Modern Art, talk with Clare Spark from KPFK about their union, Professional and Administrative Staff Assocation of the Museum of Modern Art (PASTA-MoMA) in New York City. Produced for Pacifica Radio with the partial support of a grant from the National Endowment for…

  • Women Office Workers (W.O.W.) speak out

    Women office workers, members of the group W.O.W. (Women Office Workers) tell their experiences during a speak out entitled “Women Workers Speak Out” recorded in the fall 1973. From the April 1973 WBAI Folio: “Last fall, women workers gathered together to speak out about their jobs. A packing house worker, a waitress, office workers, household…