American Women -- Work and unions

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PRA Archive #	Title	Description	Keywords	Broadcast Date
IZ1383.04	Louise Howe and Pink Collar Workers	Judy Sackoff interviews Louise Kapp Howe, author of "Pink Collar Workers," a book...	American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Howe, Louise Kapp, Women workers., Sex discrimination in employment, Women -- Employment -- United States., Women -- Employment -- Social conditions.	WBAI, February 2, 1981
IZ1502	Marge Albert: Union organizer / Bonnie Bellow	Marge Albert worked as an office worker for twenty-five years. After organizing her own office,...	American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Distributive Workers Union, Labor organizing., Women labor union members--United States, Bellow, Bonnie.	WBAI, February 24, 1974
IZ1383.05	Helen Rogan and women in the modern Army	Judy Sackoff speaks with Helen Rogan, author of "Mixed Company: Women in the Modern Army....	American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Rogan, Helen, Sex discrimination against women, Women soldiers -- United States., United States -- Armed Forces -- Women, Sexual harassment	WBAI, February 25, 1982
IZ0449.27	Women's legal clinic: February 3, 1980	Everywomanspace: Women's legal clinic. Reproductive Hazards in the Workplace. February 3,...	American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women workers., Occupational reproductive hazards., Sex discrimination in employment, DUPONT	WBAI, February 3, 1980.
IZ0449.13	Women's occupational safety: February 9, 1981	Women's Occupational Health and Safety hour hosted by Dr. Jeanne Stellman and Mary Sue...	American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Occupational health and safety., Women workers., Cancer in women., Stellman, Jeanne Mager, 1947-, Cancer -- Environmental aspects.	WBAI, February 9, 1981
IZ1393	Sex discrimination: women of the C.U.N.Y. system	Mimi Rosenberg speaks with three women: Lilia Melani, Sandy Cooper, and Nancy Dean. They discuss...	Sex discrimination in employment, Sex discrimination against women -- United States, City University of New York, College teachers., Women scholars, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982	WBAI, January 1979
IZ1400	Jewish women in New York	Tapes selected from a panel on immigrant Jewish women which was part of a conference on Culture...	American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Yivo Institute for Jewish Research, Jewish women--United States, Immigrants -- United States -- Biography, Immigrants -- Economic conditions., Boycotts, Hyman, Paula, 1946-2011, Kessler-Harris, Alice	WBAI, January 25, 1981
IZ1510	The Velvet Sledgehammer: July 2, 1980: WREE Seminar on Racism	Production reel for the July 2, 1980 episode of the Velvet Sledgehammer. Contains excerpts from...	American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, RACISM, Racism -- Economic aspects., Women for Racial and Economic Equality (Organization), Sex discrimination against women, Race discrimination -- Economic aspects.	WBAI, July 2, 1980
IZ0382	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...	American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Labor unions -- Textile workers -- Southern states., Labor unions -- Textile workers., Women labor unionists., Wertheimer, Barbara.	WBAI, July 4, 1977
IZ0449.10	Women's legal clinic: July 7, 1980	Judy Levin and Betty Levinson review important legal cases of the 1970s. Begins with discussion...	American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women's rights, Sex discrimination against women -- Law and legislation, Reproductive rights, Abortion -- Law and legislation.	WBAI, July 7, 1980.
IZ1464	School of hard knocks or, mallets with forethought	Jan Albert hosts his program about the resumed construction (after a 37-year of hiatus) of the...	American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women workers., Masonry, Building trades--United States, Women -- Employment., Working classes -- United States.	WBAI, June 18, 1980
BC2584	How to organize your workplace.	Panel discussion which covers successful efforts to organize women workers into women's caucuses...	Labor organizing., Women labor unionists., Women workers., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982	WBAI, June 28, 1975
BC2196.23	Income taxes with Reva Calesky, feminist financial consultant / interviewed by Viv Sutherland	Viv Sutherland interviews feminist financial consultant Reva Calesky (1939-2012), owner of...	Women -- Finance, Personal, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982	WBAI, March 13, 1976
BC2196.25	Women in the workforce in Canada	Kathy Ann Kersey interviews Margaret Catley-Carlson, Deputy Executive Director UNICEF about...	Catley-Carlson, Margaret, Women workers., CANADA, Women employees -- Canada, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982	WBAI, March 14, 1982
IZ0607	Hot type / by Marjorie Lipsyte interviewed by Phyllis Kriegel	"Hot Type" is a novel about a woman working on a newspaper in the 1960's,...	Lipsyte, Marjorie, 1932-, Women authors, Women journalists., Sex discrimination in employment, Newspapers., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982	WBAI, March 25, 1982
IZ0528.02	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;...	People's law update, Bread and roses, Affirmative action -- Legal status, laws, etc., Affirmative action programs--Law and legislation, Affirmative action -- Analysis., National Conference of Black Lawyers (U.S.), Discrimination in employment., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982	WBAI, March 3, 1979
IZ1507	The Velvet Sledgehammer: March 5, 1978	The Velvet Sledgehammer, March 5, 1978, hosted by Rose Jordan. Begins with a song Cassie Culver...	American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Feminism, International Women's Day, Women's organizations., Women's movement -- Political activity., Women workers.	WBAI, March 5, 1978
IZ0893	Our city, our lives: Women's work, women's health- Jeanne Stellman interviewed by Celeste Wesson	Jeanne Stellman interviewed by Celeste Wesson for the Public Affairs Department. of WBAI, NY....	American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Stellman, Jeanne Mager, 1947-, Occupational health and safety -- United States., Working women	WBAI, March 6, 1978
IZ1388	Where's the rub?	This program is an investigation of the proposed licensing of massage parlors in New York in...	Prostitution., Police -- New York City., New York City, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982	WBAI, March 8, 1973
IZ1438	History of women workers and women in the labor movement	Historian Dr. Blanche Wiesen Cook interviews historian Dr. Alice Kessler Harris about women and...	LABOR MOVEMENT, Working class women, Women employees, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Kessler-Harris, Alice	WBAI, May 1, 1982
BC0980	The Lawrence strike / Meredith Tax ; produced by Ann Snitow.	This program is a history of the Lawrence Strike, a poetic adaptation of "The Rising of the...	Tax, Meredith, Strikes -- Textiles., Radio adaptations., Women labor unionists., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982	WBAI, May 21, 1972
BB3953	Women in media / Nicholas Johnson	Federal Communications Commissioner Nicholas Johnson speaking before the American Women in Radio...	Johnson, Nicholas, 1934-, Mass media -- Social aspects., Mass media and minorities., Mass media and women, FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (7/96), American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982	WBAI, May 26, 1970
IZ0449.06	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...	American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Pregnancy., Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States., Women's rights, Sex discrimination against women -- Law and legislation, Pregnancy, Unwanted., Pregnant women -- Employment -- United States.	WBAI, May 7, 1979.
IZ0449.21	Everywomanspace: November 1, 1982	Aircheck of Everywomanspace with Angela Gilliam from November 1, 1982. The guests are Sonja Dean...	CHILD CARE, Women for Racial and Economic Equality (Organization), Working class women, Women workers., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982	WBAI, November 1, 1982.
IZ0449.11	Women's occupational health: November 10, 1980	The first in a series of programs on women's occupational safety and health with Dr. Jeanne...	American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Stellman, Jeanne Mager, 1947-, Henifin, Mary Sue, 1953-, Occupational health and safety -- Law and legislation., Occupational health and safety., Women workers.	WBAI, November 10, 1980
IZ0449.16	Trying to survive: prostitution and women's work	The third in a series of three documentaries about prostitution and women's work (The...	American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Prostitution., Women workers.	WBAI, November 2, 1981 and January 4, 1982.
IZ1474	Sophie Cohen speaks on the 1913 Paterson, New Jersey silk strike	This program is a talk give by Sophie Cohen, IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) worker who...	American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD., Silk Workers' Strike, Paterson, N.J., 1913, Women workers., Women labor unionists., Strikes -- Textiles.	WBAI, November 27, 1976
BC1446	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...	American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Sexual harassment -- United States -- Personal narratives, Labor unions -- New York (City)., Women -- Employment.	WBAI, Part 1: 2 Apr. 1973, 6 Apr. 1973; Part 2: 10 Apr. 1973, 11 Apr. 1973.
IZ1503	A tribute to Esther Rand	In June of 1981, tenant organizer Esther Rand of the East Side Tenant Council died at the age of...	American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women labor union members--United States, Labor organizers., Tenants' associations -- New York (State) -- New York., Women in community organization	WBAI, September 5, 1981
WZ0299	Coal country women / produced by Mary Kasamatsu	This is a three-part series on women in Appalachia in the 1970s: mining disasters, their lives...	Coal mine accidents -- Kentucky, Coal mines and mining, Women coal miners, Scotia Mine Disaster, Oven Fork, Ky., 1976, Women workers., Women labor unionists., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Reece, Florence, 1900-1986	WPFW, 1982; KPFA, June 5, 19, 26, 1982
WZ0047	Harlan county USA / Nancy Barker and Hart Perry	Barry Parker from WPFW's Film Exchange interviews Nancy Barker and Hart Perry, respectively...	American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Barker, Nancy, Perry, Hart, Documentary films, Coal Miners' Strike, Harlan County, Ky., 1973, Harlan County USA (Motion picture), Kopple, Barbara	WPFW, 28 Mar. 1977.
WZ0002.02	Labor fights for the ERA	This episode of "Them and Us" is asking "Should labor unions support ERA (Equal...	Working classes -- United States., Equal Rights Amendment (Proposed)., Discrimination in employment -- United States., Radio call-in shows, Women labor unionists., Labor unions, Sex discrimination in employment, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982	WPFW, January 19, 1978

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