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- Michigan State University Professor of Sociology Soma Chaudhuri delivers a talk entitled, "Organizing in a Precarious World of Work: The Self Employed Women's Association of India". Chaudhuri describes the origins and operations of the Indian group SEWA and their efforts to bring economic justice to Indian women who perform the most undesirable jobs, usually outside of the formal employment structure. A question and answer session follows. Chaudhuri is introduced by Michigan State University Professor John P. Beck. Part of the "Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives" Brown Bag series sponsored by the MSU School of Human Resources and Labor Relations, the MSU Museum, and co-sponsored by the MSU Asian Studies Center, MSU Center for Gender in Global Context, and the MSU Women's Resource Center. Held at the MSU Museum.
- Date Issued:
- 2013-02-08T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Mary C. Burnham talks about serving as a dietitian in the U.S. Army Medical Specialist Corps during World War Two and later in occupied Japan and stateside military hospitals, over a twenty-year Army career. Burnham discusses her youth in Milwaukee, her college years, her early work life in Chicago, enlisting in the Army in 1942 soon after Pearl Harbor, training at a base in Texas, shipping out to the Pacific Theater, her initial posting to Espiritu Santo in the New Hebrides Islands, and her life on the base and her duties as a dietitian. She says that she was later transferred to India and after serving in hospitals there, was sent back to the states via the Middle East and North Africa. During the Korean war, Burnham was again sent overseas and served as part of the U.S. Army of Occupation in Japan. She describes her three years of service in Japan, and says that she was very happy to finally be sent back to the states to serve in a series of military hospitals for the rest of her career. Burnham is interviewed by Jane Piatt.
- Date Issued:
- 1983-05-13T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Description:
- Michigan State University Professor of Sociology Soma Chaudhuri delivers a talk entitled, "Organizing in a Precarious World of Work: The Self Employed Women's Association of India". Chaudhuri describes the origins and operations of the Indian group SEWA and their efforts to bring economic justice to Indian women who perform the most undesirable jobs, usually outside of the formal employment structure. A question and answer session follows. Chaudhuri is introduced by Michigan State University Professor John P. Beck. Part of the "Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives" Brown Bag series sponsored by the MSU School of Human Resources and Labor Relations, the MSU Museum, and co-sponsored by the MSU Asian Studies Center, MSU Center for Gender in Global Context, and the MSU Women's Resource Center. Held at the MSU Museum.
- Date Issued:
- 2013-02-08T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection