Film: Raising the Roof- Home Jane

Have you watched this short video about an all-women property maintenance crew of tradeswomen? (http://blip.tv/visionontv/raising-the-roof-part-3-of-8-home-jane-759727)

Raising the Roof - Part 3 of 8 - Home Jane

a film by Anne-Marie Sweeney

This video was produced for JIVE at Oxford's Women Training (OWT)- a JIVE Partner at Oxford & Cherwell Valley College. JIVE is a program that runs mentoring and recruitment for getting women and girls engaged with non-traditional professions. According to Europe's analog of the EEOC, JIVE brings together regional and federal systems that support a diverse workforce such as: training centers, institutions of education, equal opportunity entities, and employers. JIVE has some transnational connections with Germany, France, Finland, and Denmark.

Can't see the link to the video? http://blip.tv/visionontv/raising-the-roof-part-3-of-8-home-jane-759727

Have you seen this movie?

Hammering it Out: Women in the Construction Zone (2000)

Director Vivian Price

You can find it online at a page named movieflix.com. It is about the Century Freeway Pre-apprentice Program and contains a lot of good information, shots of the kind of training, and information on the numbers.
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Links for more info:
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/labor_studies_journal/v029/29.4laporte.html
http://www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory/documentary/labor/hammering.php

A great PDF, including additional resources
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