Ellen Cassedy discusses Working 9 to 5 with guest Kristin Mink
About Working 9 to 5:
9 to 5 wasn’t just a comic film—it was a movement built by Ellen Cassedy and her friends.
Ten office workers in Boston started out sitting in a circle and sharing the problems they encountered on the job. In a few short years, they had built a nationwide movement that united people of diverse races, classes, and ages.
They took on the corporate titans. They leafleted and filed lawsuits and started a woman-led union. They won millions of dollars in back pay and helped make sexual harassment and pregnancy discrimination illegal.
The women office workers who rose up to win rights and respect on the job transformed workplaces throughout America. And along the way came Dolly Parton’s toe-tapping song and a hit movie inspired by their work.
Working 9 to 5 is a lively, informative, firsthand account packed with practical organizing lore that will embolden anyone striving for fair treatment.
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Ellen Cassedy was a founder of the 9 to 5 organization in 1973. She is the coauthor of 9 to 5: The Working Woman's Guide to Office Survival (with Karen Nussbaum) and The 9 to 5 Guide to Combating Sexual Harassment (with Ellen Bravo). Cassedy is a former columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News, was a speechwriter in the Clinton administration, and has contributed to Huffington Post, Redbook, Woman's Day, Hadassah, Philadelphia Inquirer, and other publications. She lives in New York City.
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Kristin Mink is a Maryland resident and first-generation Chinese American. For years, she taught middle school English and math, but during the Trump administration, she shifted into full-time organizing and policy advocacy after a video of her confronting Trump's EPA Director Scott Pruitt went viral. Kristin is currently the Senior Legislative Organizer at the Center for Popular Democracy. She just decisively won her primary election to become the Democratic nominee for Montgomery County Council's District 5 seat and will face a Republican opponent in November. Kristin looks forward to using the platform of elected office to center impacted people in the fights to drive policy change for women's rights, workers' rights, and more.
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