Working Women Education Fund (April 1981)
Warning: Health Hazards for Office Workers - An Overview of Problems and Solutions, in Occupational Health in the Office

This report covers problems , relating to stress, VDTs, air quality and ventilation, and design problems. The results of a health and safety survey are included, as well as some simple and inexpensive ways to reduce office health hazards.
Working Women Education Fund, 1224 Huron Road, Cleveland, Ohio 44115.

4. Films

British Broadcasting Corporation (1978)
Now the Chips are Down (50 minutes, 16 mm)

An excellent, broad-ranging introduction to the social and scientific implications of the microprocessor. BBC Film Sales, Manulife Centre, 55 Bloor Street West, Suite 1220, Toronto M4 W lA5.

British Broadcasting Corporation (1980)
And What of the Future (40 minutes, 16 mm or 3/4" video)
The last of several sequels to "Now the Chips are Down" examines the effects of micro- electronics on jobs in the future. Examples from the Washington Metro, a Dallas supermarket, offices and a bank in New York, a Scottish hospital and a London school. BBC Film Sales, as above.

Canadian Labour Congress,
Labour Education Studies Centre (1983)
Microelectronics Revolution: Ready or Not! (20 minutes, ¾" videotape)

Encourages an understanding and discussion of new technology and its applications. Raises questions such as "what is so revolutionary about this technology?".

Canadian Labour Congress, 2841 Riverside Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1V 8X7; also available in regional offices of the CLC.

Education Media (1982)
The New Technology: Whose Progress? (35 minutes, 16 mm)

A critical examination of microelectronic technology, which analyses the claim that new technology will revolutionize our lives.
Education Media, 2 Ridgemount, Ridgeroad, London NW2, England. Available at the Development Education Centre in Toronto.

National Film Board (1980)
Office of the Future (14 minutes, ¾"videotape)

This film is part of a $12 million campaign by the federal government to promote the "office of the future" in Canada.
Available from regional offices of the Federal Department of Communications for public viewing.

Ontario Educational Communications
Authority (1978)
Fast Forward 1 and Fast Forward 2 (30 minutes, ½" videos)

A "gee whiz" approach to the new technology. See especially "The Microelectronics Revolution," in which "specialists discuss the microprocessor, 'an electronic marvel that we can talk to and train" (OECA).
Ontario Educational Communications Authority, T. V. Ontario, Toronto, Ontario.

Sky Works (1982)
Good Monday Morning (30 minutes, 16 mm)

An excellent film which brings out the problems faced by office workers, through interviews of women across the country. This "in-their-own-words" style of presentation makes the film strong and direct. Commissioned by the National Union of Provincial Government Employees (NUPGE).
Sky Works, 566 Palmerston Avenue, Toronto. Ontario.

(For a bibliography of French language sources, refer to the French version of this document.)