Boston Tradeswomen's Network
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Vivian Price Collection
Collection
Identifier: SPC-2008-004
Abstract
This collection documents the academic and professional life of Dr. Vivian Price, a political scientist, videographer, and union electrician, who has played an active role in the labor and non-traditional women’s occupation movement in Los Angeles, California. Materials include: legal and business papers, labor union records, professional organization and conference materials, correspondence, newsletters, press releases, newspaper clippings, ephemera, lectures, miscellaneous academic papers,...
Dates:
1970-2015; undated; Majority of material found within 1970-1997
Ronnie Sandler Collection
Collection
Identifier: SPC-2016-014
Abstract
This collection documents the work of Ronnie Sandler, an activist in the tradeswomen’s movement. Much of Sandler’s work focused on expanding women’s access to fields where they had not traditionally been employed, such as building trades and transportation. The bulk of the collection focuses on Sandler’s efforts to organize with tradeswomen’s organizations to access funds from the Intermodal Surface Transportation and Efficiency Act (ISTEA) of 1991, in order to train women for nontraditional...
Dates:
1942-2016; undated; Majority of material found within 1990-1998
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- Affirmative action programs -- California 1
- Affirmative action programs -- United States 1
- Atlanta (Ga.) 1
- Baltimore (Md.) 1
- Beijing (China) 1
- Berkeley (Calif.) 1
- Building trades -- Asia 1
- Building trades -- California 1
- Building trades -- United States 1
- City of Kansas (Mo.) 1
- Diversity in the workplace 1
- Diversity in the workplace -- United States 1
- India 1
- Japan 1
- Labor laws and legislation -- California 1
- Labor union members -- United States 1
- Labor union members -- United States -- Interviews 1
- Long Beach (Calif.) 1
- Los Angeles (Calif.) 1
- New Orleans (La.) 1
- New York (N.Y.) 1
- Nontraditional employment for women -- United States 1
- Pakistan 1
- San Francisco (Calif.) 1
- Seattle (Wash.) 1
- Sex role and globalization 1
- Sexual harassment -- United States 1
- Taiwan 1
- Thailand 1
- Washington (D.C.) 1
- Women -- Employment 1
- Women -- Employment -- United States 1
- Women in the labor movement -- California 1 ∧ less
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