United States. Department of Labor
Organization
Found in 3 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
Lynn Shaw Collection
Collection
Identifier: SPC-2008-005
Abstract
This collection documents the academic and professional life of Dr. Lynn Shaw, a professor of electrical technology at Long Beach City College who has been a key figure in the labor and nontraditional women's occupation movement in Southern California as well as in national tradeswomen's groups. Materials include: professional organization and conference materials; materials concerning career development, including apprenticeship and curricular programs; reports; periodicals; Dr. Shaw's...
Dates:
1937-2019; undated; Majority of material found within 1950-2005
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- Affirmative action programs -- California 2
- Building trades -- California 2
- Diversity in the workplace 2
- Labor laws and legislation -- California 2
- Labor union members -- United States 2
- Occupational training for women -- United States 2
- Women -- Employment 2
- Women in the labor movement -- California 2
- Affirmative action programs -- United States 1
- Atlanta (Ga.) 1
- Baltimore (Md.) 1
- Beijing (China) 1
- Berkeley (Calif.) 1
- Building trades -- Asia 1
- Building trades -- United States 1
- Career development -- Curricula 1
- Career development -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. 1
- Career development -- Planning 1
- Career development -- Sex differences 1
- City of Kansas (Mo.) 1
- Diversity in the workplace -- United States 1
- Gender and education 1
- Gender and work 1
- India 1
- Japan 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
- Occupational training for women 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 -- United States 1 ∧ less
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