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41) The big city
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Bengali
Description
Set in mid-1950s Calcutta and directed by Satyajit Ray, this story follows the personal triumphs and frustrations of Arati, who decides, despite the initial protests of her bank-clerk husband, to take a job to help support their family. With remarkable sensitivity and attention to the details of everyday working-class life, Ray gradually builds a powerful human drama that is at once a hopeful morality tale and a commentary on the identity of the contemporary...
42) China blue
Publisher
Teddy Bear Films
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
This documentary visits a Chinese blue-jean factory, where workers are trying to survive a harsh working environment. But when the factory owner agrees to a deal with his Western client that forces his teenage workers to work around the clock, a confrontation becomes inevitable.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
"When Diana discovers her husband is having an affair, her glamorous bubble bursts. On her own for the first time, she takes the only job she can get, exchanges her Manolo Blahniks for Payless, and tries to settle into the life of a woman who does her own laundry, buys her own groceries, and takes the bus. Will she attempt to regain her throne, and can romance find her again?"--Jacket.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In this engaging book--the first to historicize our understanding of sexual harassment in the workplace--Julie Berebitsky explores how Americans' attitudes toward sexuality and gender in the office have changed since the 1860s, when women first took jobs as clerks in the U.S. Treasury office. Berebitsky recounts the actual experiences of female and male office workers; draws on archival sources ranging from the records of investigators looking for...
Author
Publisher
[Jan Knuth]
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Scared to death? Not yet obviously! You've come to the right pages. The Halloween haunt world has so many thrills and chills awaiting your faint heart, and women are conjuring up many of these sensational experiences. Not Afraid to Slay features both an in-depth look at going from home haunt to commercial haunt, and modern insight on acting, costuming and makeup, house design and layout, story creation, and high-tech inventions in the movie industry...
Author
Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"What's missing from gender equality efforts? Men. Women are at a disadvantage in the workplace, where they deal with unequal pay, sexual harassment, lack of credit for their contributions, and more. And while organizations are looking to address these issues, too many gender-inclusion initiatives focus exclusively on how women should respond, leaving men out of the equation. Such efforts reinforce the perception that these are "women's issues" and...
51) Radium girls
Publisher
Juno Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Based on true events, follows a group of women factory workers in the 1920s who challenge their employer and working conditions when some of the workers, who apply radium paint to watch dials, begin to get ill."--
Author
Publisher
New York, NY
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
For the first time in history, career women--who have worked outside the home for most of their lives--are retiring. Highly skilled, educated and successful, they have achieved visibility, status and influence, but the first large group of American women to define themselves by their work has few, if any, models for retirement. Project Renewment shows women that giving up their careers does not mean giving up who they are. "Renewment" is a term created...
Author
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"Diane C. Vecchio's unique study challenges long-held patriarchal assumptions about Italian women's work in the United States by considering the work experiences of Italian immigrant women and their daughters in the previously unexamined regions of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Endicott, New York, during the turn of the twentieth century. Using Italian and American sources and rich oral histories, this study reveals that women in Italy had economic responsibilities...
56) Radium girls
Author
Publisher
Iron Circus Comics
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"A stunning graphic novel retelling of the shocking and inspiring true story of the Radium Girls, who fought for their lives and for workers' rights after horrific management failures led to extreme cases of radiation poisoning in 1918. It's 1918 in Orange, New Jersey, and everyone knows the "Ghost Girls." The proud holders of well-paying jobs at the local watch factory, these working-class young women gain their nickname from the fine dusting of...
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