“Working For Your Life”, Heavy Color Fade, Orange/Redish, Kodak SP? Eastman Color?

“This wonderful 1979 film, Working for Your Life, by the Labor Occupational Health Program, explored the health and safety conditions of America’s working women by examining the hazards and demands they face in their workplaces. Andrea Hricko and Ken Light, working for LOHP at the time, created this important documentary film. The film is based on the 1976 handbook – Working for Your Life: A Woman’s Guide to Job Health Hazards, by Andrea Hricko with Melanie Brunt. A joint publication of Labor Occupational Health Program and Public Citizen’s Health Research Group This handbook is available on the internet at http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/28722/b… . Filmed in over 40 workplaces, this film highlights occupations that are both traditional ones for women (such as clerical and hospital workers) and jobs into which women were just beginning to move (such as mining). The film also shows women who are seeking solutions to these job hazards, including a woman who set up a union health and safety committee, women testifying at OSHA hearings, and a woman organizer who is concerned about health hazards in her electronics plant”