Flyaway Productions, a Bay Area dance company, was commissioned by the Labor Archives and Research Center to create an aerial site-specific performance, choreographed by Jo Kreiter, to promote the 30th anniversary of the Labor Archives and Research Center in the SF State library. According to Director of the Labor Archives, Catherine Powell the performance was dedicated to women’s rights and gender roles in the work place during the 1970s.
Labor History
Labor Archives and Research Center 30th Anniversary Celebration
- by Rosemary Feurer
- June 13, 2016
Flyaway Productions, a Bay Area dance company, was commissioned by the Labor Archives and Research Center to create an aerial site-specific performance, choreographed by Jo Kreiter, to promote the 30th anniversary of the Labor Archives and Research Center in the SF State library. According to Director of the Labor Archives, Catherine Powell the performance was dedicated to women’s rights and gender roles in the work place during the 1970s.

Rosemary Feurer is Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. She is the author of Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950, among other books and essays. She is working on The Illinois Mine Wars, 1860-1940 and a new biography of Mary Harris "Mother" Jones.
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