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INVENTORY OF THE VIVIAN PRICE COLLECTION,
1970s-2009, bulk 1990-1997
"Consult repository."
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Title: Vivian Price Collection,
Dates: 1970s/2009
Bulk: 1990/1997,
Collection Number: "Consult repository."
Creator:
Price, Vivian
Extent:
39 boxes
(19 linear ft)
Repository: California State University, Dominguez Hills
Archives and Special Collections
Archives & Special Collection
University Library, Room G-145
1000 E. Victoria Street
Carson, California 90747
Phone: (310) 243-3013
URL: http://www.csudh.edu/archives/csudh/index.html
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, photographs, and videotapes. Other
materials concern to Women In Non-Traditional Employment Roles (WINTER), other tradeswomen organizations,
women constructing the Century Freeway in Los Angeles, tradeswomen education and training apprenticeship
programs, and policies such as Affirmative Action for women.
Language: Collection material is in English
There are no access restrictions on this collection.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Director of Archives
and Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical
materials and not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Vivian Price Collection, Courtesy of the Department of Archives and Special Collections. University Library. California State
University, Dominguez Hills
Following her initiative to start the Tradeswomen Archives project at California State University Dominguez
Hills (CSUDH), Dr. Price has donated materials covering her career as an advocate for women's equal rights in the
workforce in May and December 2008. CSUDH, located in the South Bay Area, is where Price has served as a faculty
member since 2005.
Collection processed by Veronica D'Aquino, 2009
Vivian Price has been the Assistant Director of Interdisciplinary Studies at California State University Dominguez
Hills since 2005. She received her doctorate in Political Science at the University of California, Irvine, in
2000. Chapters of her dissertation on affirmative action and community pressure in construction have been
published in
Feminist Economics (2002) and in a collection of essays,
Women in Construction
(Reed Publications, 2004). Her interest is in the humanistic study of gender and work, and has focused on the
history and contemporary lives of women in non-traditional jobs, especially in the Building Trades. In 1996, she
received a start-up grant and then, additionally, a production grant from the California Council of the
Humanities (CCH) to produce Hammering It Out, a documentary on the Century Freeway Women's Employment Program
which has since been screened internationally. In 2008, she received another grant from the CCH to direct a
series of life-story interviews with tradeswomen; training youths from the Long Beach Lesbian and Gay Center to
conduct the interviews and then edit these interviews into short films.
Since the 1990's, Dr. Price has been actively working to facilitate a greater representation of skilled women
in the trades. This effort has been facilitated through education networking, training, and her active
membership in the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) and the Southern California
Tradeswomen Network (SCTN). In 1992 Dr. Price was elected office at the IBEW local 11, and and under the
IBEW's jurisdiction, collaborated with Electric Women where she served as secretary throughout the 1990s. She also documented
the history and activities of the IBEW for
their century anniversary
(Our History, Our Future: History of the IBEW 1891-1991), and her role in
the inception of WINTER can be traced back to 1994. Along with being a founding member, Dr. Price held a position
on the Board of Directors and developed its official newsletter
(Non-Trad. News). Moreover, Dr. Price
continues to actively pursue grants for training and educational initiatives, provides advisory work, and has
collaborated with outreach projects at LAUSD and Long Beach City College, among other institutions. These activities
are designed to promote an awareness of gender related discriminatory issues in both the workplace and the educational system.
Some of these
include proper education and training in sexual harassment prevention and racial discrimination as well as
how to monitor relevant laws and propositions.
In 2007, Dr. Price initiated the Tradeswomen archives project at the CSUDH Archives and Special Collections
Department.
The papers and audiovisual materials comprising the Vivian Price collection (ca. 1970-2009, bulk 1990-1997)
document her career as an advocate for women's rights in the trades' workforce.
The collection is primarily comprised of legal documents, business letters, union records, and training and
educational materials depicting Dr. Price's affiliations and contributions to various tradeswomen
organizations. They also reflect her active participation in the promotion and awareness of gender related
issues in the workplace and educational system. Organizational papers primarily document the activities of
these trades organizations and unions such as: WINTER, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
(IBEW), and Electric Women. They also document their liaisons with the US Labor Department Bureau and other
related organizations. Also included are relevant WINTER records created in the course of its foundation,
administration, and management during the 1995-1997 period. Additionally, a wealth of records depicts the
activities and history of the IBEW and support groups such as Electric Women and the Southern California
Tradeswomen Network (SCTN).
Research papers and audiovisual materials document the role women played in building California's I-105
Century Freeway (1982 - mid.1990s). Some of these include administrative and legal records within the
Century Freeway files noting lawsuits and legislation directly affecting women's labor conditions as well
as equal opportunity employment for women within the freeway construction process.
Research and academic records also illustrate Dr. Price's track record towards affirmative action, the roles
played by women in the construction industry nationally, and the promotion of diversity within these
non-traditional roles. Many of these issues have been translated into films such as
In My Own Words ;
Against All Odds , the story of the first African-American journey-woman in the Los Angeles
electrician's union, and
Gender in the Global Construction Site, which was developed for the 1994
Beijing Women's Conference (United Nations, 1995).
The reference subject file gathers publications, pamphlets, articles, and newspapers clippings covering
several themes including: affirmative action, women apprenticeship programs, sexual harassment, safety
and health in the workplace, civil and workers' rights, and gender films.
Arrangement
Arranged in nine series:
- Series I. Tradeswomen Organizations & Related Groups (1969-2008, bulk 1990-1997)
- Series II. Century Freeway I-105 (1971-2000, bulk 1988)
- Series III. Career Development in the Trades (1990-2008, bulk 1993-1997)
- Series IV. Academic File (1992-2006)
- Series V. Video Productions & Other Media Projects (1991-2006)
- Series VI. Subject File (1991-2006)
- Series VII. Moving Images (1990s-2000)
- Series VIII. Photographs (1970s-2007)
- Oversize Prints and Graphic Materials (1980s-2009)
Affirmative action programs--California
Apprenticeship programs--United States
Building trades--California
Building trades--Asia
Discrimination in employment--Law and legislation--United States
Diversity in the workplace
Occupational training for women--United States
Sex discrimination in employment
Sex role and globalization
Women--Employmentt
Women in the labor movement--California
Labor union members--United States
Labor union members--United States--Interviews
Labor laws and legislation--California
Cassyd, Donna
Crudup, Neshtey
Doro, Susan
Mixer, Madeline
Price, Vivian
Shaw, Lynn
Apprenticeship & Non Traditional Employment for Women
Boston Tradeswomen's Network
Century Freeway Affirmative Action Committee, Inc. (Calif.)
Century Housing Corporation (Calif.)
Chicago Women in Trades
Coalition of Labor Union Women (U.S.)
Electric Women (Calif.)
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Local 11 (Calif.)
International Union of Operating Engineers
Los Angeles (Calif.). Dept. of Water and Power
Los Angeles Metropolitan Plumbers
Los Angeles Unified School District
Sisters in the Brotherhood
Southern California Tradeswomen Network
Tradeswomen Inc
United States. Bureau of Labor
WINTER
Atlanta, Ga.
Beijing (China)
Baltimore (Md.)
Berkeley (Calif.)
India
Japan
City of Kansas (Mo.)
Los Angeles (Calif.)-
Long Beach(Calif.)
New Orleans (La.)
New York (N.Y.)
Pakistan
San Francisco (Calif.)
Seattle (Wash.)
Taiwan
Thailand
Washington (D.C.)
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