Working Group records 1984-2005 (Bulk 1988-1999)

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Working Group records 1984-2005 (Bulk 1988-1999)

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The Working Group Collection contains production, research, outreach, and financial records generated by the The Working Group in producing the television series , and The collection also contains materials created in the production of contract documentaries and films for client organizations such as labor unions and apprenticeship programs. The bulk of the collection spans the years 1988-2002, and reveals the activities of the organization in producing local and nationally distributed television programs for broadcast on public television. The Working Group is an independent media production company based in Oakland, California. California Working, We Do the Work Livelyhood.

33 record cartons.

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San Francisco State University. Labor Archives and Research Center.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6661762

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California Working Group

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We Do the Work (Association)

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KQED-TV (Television station : San Francisco, Calif.)

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Administrative History In 1982 Jane Muramoto produced for public broadcasting television station KQED in San Francisco, a half-hour documentary film of Kenneth Patchen's California years. Kenneth Patchen: Hurrah for Anything, conveys the personal and human side of Patchen's creativity as told by Miriam Patchen, poet Al Young, small press printer Jonathan Clark, poet and playwright James Schevill, and UCSC Special Collections libra...

We Do the Work (Firm)

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Working Group Records

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Organizational / Administrative History In 1988, a coalition of labor leaders, educators, independent filmmakers and community activists founded the California Working Group in response to a deficiency of coverage of workers by the mainstream media. The era was politically conservative in national and statewide politics, and when the program went on the air it was the only independently produced program about work and working people on the Pu...

We California Working Group Inc.

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Working Group (Oakland, Calif.)

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