Rada, Juan (1981)
The Impact of Microelectronics

This global perspective is one of the best, up-to-date. comprehensive examinations of the employment impacts of information technology. International Labour Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.

Steelworkers (February 1981)
Office, Technical and Professional Workers Join the Steelworkers in Steelabour, Vol. XLVI, No.2 (Canadian Edition)

Discussion of the new technology. health and safety. and equal pay in relation to office and technical locals recently organized by the Steelworkers. United Steelworkers of America, 55 Eglinton East, Toronto, Ontario.

United Auto Workers (September 1980)
Keeping an Eye on VDT's (by Anne Field), in Solidarity

This three-page article deals with health and safety hazards arising from work at VDTs and how the UAW is working to protect their 10,000 to 20,000 members affected.
United Auto Workers, Canadian Locals.

Women's Work Project (1978)
Women Organizing the Office

A practical guide for office workers who wish to form a union, this pamphlet also out- lines problems on the job, including automation (pages 32-36) and the history of clerical work. Women in Distribution, P.O. Box 8858, Washington, D.C. 20003, U.S.A.

3. Health and Safety Issues

Chenier, Nancy Miller (December 1982)
Reproductive Hazards at Work: Men, Women and the Fertility Gamble

A broad look at health issues which affect fertility, this report includes a section on VDTs.
Free from: Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women, Box 1541, Station B, Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5R5.

Conn, Melanie (Spring 1982)
VDTs .. Very Damning Testimony, in Health sharing

A brief report on some of the health hazards which have been associated with VDTs; includes a list of resources. Women Healthsharing, Box 230, Station M, Toronto, Ontario M6S 4T3.

Craig, Marianne (February 1981)
Office Workers' Survival Hand- book: A Guide to Fighting Health Hazards in the Office

A comprehensive paperback covering all aspects of health and safety for office workers, with special emphasis on new technology in Section 4, Chapter 9. Suggested broad strategies include using the law and organizing a union.
BSSRS Publications Ltd., 9 Poland St., London W1, U.K. Distributed by Trade Union Book Service, 265 Seven Sisters Road, London N4, U.K.

Labour Council of Metropolitan Toronto (September and October 1980)
Health Alert - Video Display Terminals, Vol. 4, Nos. 3 and 4 of the Health and Safety Newsletter of the Labour Council of Metro Toronto

Comprehensive inventory of health and safety hazards resulting from work at video display terminals. Labour Council of Metropolitan Toronto, 15 Gervais Drive, Toronto.

Makower, Joel (1981)
Office Hazards: How Your Job Can Make You Sick

Another comprehensive look at health issues for office workers with one chapter (8) devoted to the "office of the future."
Tilden Press, 1737 DeSales Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20036.

New York Committee for Occupational Health and Safety (1980)
Health Protection for Operators of VDTs/CRTs

A small pamphlet, which provides a good overview of the most important problems and some of the solutions. NYCOSH, 32 Union Square, Room 404, New York. N.Y. 10003. U.S.A.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Center for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety (June 1981)
Potential Health Hazards of Video Display Terminals

Results of a study to determine the hazards of working with VDTs. Radiation and chemical substances in the air were found to be within acceptable levels, while visual and muscular complaints were found to result from glare, and keyboard or screen height.
For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402.

Walsh, Barbara (December 1980)
Big Brother is Watching You... And Killing You Too, in the Toronto Clarion

A useful discussion of the radiation effects of video display terminals.
Toronto Clarion, Toronto, Ontario.