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Connecticut Citizens Action Group Records., undated, 1964-2002

Title: Connecticut Citizens Action Group Records. undated, 1964-2002

The Connecticut Citizen Action Group was the first state-based consumer interest group. Created in 1971 by Ralph Nader and directed by Toby Moffett, CCAG was designed to represent, inform, unite, and empower the citizens of Connecticut in their roles as consumers, workers, tax payers, and voters. Taking on such issues as illegal business practices, utility rate increases, environmental pollution, and consumer fraud, the newly formed group was inundated with citizen requests for information and counsel. Among its major activities and accomplishments are: the General Assembly Project, an in-depth analysis of the behavior of state legislators; the Health Project, which compiled a wide range of state health care information; organizing efforts to enact the Bottle Bill, which required deposits on many types of beverage containers; enforcing environmental standards and enacting consumer protection legislation; and watchdog oversight and legal action concerning utility companies and development projects.

ArchivalResource: 150.8 Linear feet

https://collections.ctdigitalarchive.org/islandora/object/20002:860133772 View

Baker, Marie. Rosie the Riveter revisited.

Title: Rosie the Riveter revisited.

Presents the oral histories of 45 women who worked in the aircraft industry in Los Angeles during World War 2. The life history interviews, which vary in length from an average of three hours to as much as nine hours, document both the narrators' wartime experience and the longer term impact of that work experience. Most of the women worked as riveters and/or buckers, but two served as women counselors and several of the others ended up in white collar positions by war's end. Several of them became active in their unions, particularly in the United Auto Workers/CIO, which represented workers at both Douglas and North American. Many of those who were laid off at the end of the war returned to aircraft work during the Korean conflict in the 1950s when the aircraft industry in southern California expanded again.

ArchivalResource: 240 compact discs (approx. 254 hrs) ; 4 3/4 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62097478 View