Women in the labor movement -- California.
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Carol Cuénod oral history
Sound recording of interview with Carol Cuénod conducted by Harvey Schwartz. Topics include insightful reflections on politically active mother, Left politics in California during 1940s-1950s, California Labor School, and International Longshore and Warehouse Union.
Dorothy Elizabeth "Betty" De Losada oral history
Sound recording of interview with Dorothy Elizabeth "Betty" De Losada conducted by Lynn Bonfield. Interview focuses on friendship with Nikki Bridges Flynn, wife of ILWU leader Harry Bridges.
Instructional materials for women in trades and union work
This collection of instructional materials focuses on education and awareness of gender discrimination in the workplace and occupational training programs for women in nontraditional jobs, trades, and unions. This collection also contains five social/political pamphlets from the Radical Education Project, and one pamphlet from the Berkeley-Oakland Women’s Union, a Socialist feminist organization of women against sexism and exploitation.
Madeline Mixer oral history
Sound recording of interview with Madeline Mixer conducted by Harvey Schwartz. Recalls classes from Clark Kerr, UC Berkeley, and work for UC's Heller Committee for research in social economics; contains rich assessment of Women's Bureau leadership in Washington, D.C., 1960s-1970s, and in-depth coverage of own pioneering advocacy of non-traditional job training and placement for women, 1972-1996.
Joan-Marie Shelley oral history
Sound recording of interview with Joan-Marie Shelley conducted by Adah Bakalinsky. Describes her involvement with school unions, 1955-1970, and her rise to become president of the United Educators of San Francisco in 1984; discusses her views on bilingual education, violence in schools, the California Teachers Association, and the American Federation of Teachers,, as well as the influence of her father, former San Francisco mayor John Francis Shelley; synoptic index available.