Guide to the Steffi Domike Papers, 1946-2009 AIS.1997.20
1946-1994
Metadata Details
- Title
- Papers of Steffi Domike, 1946-1994, Steffi Domike papers, 1946-1994, Domike papers, 1946-1994
- Creator
- Subject
- Domike, Steffi, Sadlowski, Edward, United Steelworkers of America., United Steelworkers of America. Local 1557 (Clairton, Pa.), Steel Workers Organizing Committee (U.S.), United States Steel Corporation. Clairton Works., Mon-Valley Unemployed Committee., Steel Valley Authority of the Mon Valley., Pittsburgh Filmmakers., Iron and steel workers--Labor unions--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh region, Labor unions--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh region, Steel industry and trade--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh Region, Industrial relations--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh region, Labor disputes--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh region, Labor movement--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh region, Strikes and lockouts--Steel industry--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh region, Women labor leaders--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh region, Women labor union members--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh region, Women in the labor movement--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh region, Women motion picture producers and directors
- Description
- This collection contains correspondence, newsletters, minutes, reports and articles about local steel labor unions and steel industries, in general. Materials relating to the oral history project, "Crashin' Out", and "The River Ran Red" (film and book), such as grant proposals, research articles, news clippings, reviews, publicity articles, archival images and other ephemeral information are also included., These files reflect Steffi Domike's participation in United Steelworkers of America Local 1557 while working as an electrician's apprentice at U.S. Steel's Clairton Coke Works and her work after being laid off in 1982 with the Mon Valley Unemployed Committee and as a filmmaker and producer. The collection contains correspondence, newsletters, minutes, reports, and articles about local steelworkers unions, rank and file movements, and the international steelworkers union during the 1970s and 1980s. Materials relating to the oral history project Crashin' Out: Hard Times in McKeesport and the documentary film/book The River Ran Red include grant proposals, research articles, publicity articles, and archival images. Video regarding local labor issues and the production of Women of Steel and The River Ran Red is also present., The files relating to Domike's participation in labor unions and her files relating to filmmaking were originally separated into two different collections. This collection, 1997:20, reflects the unification of collections 1997:20 and parts of 1984:20., Papers of Steffi Domike, AIS 1997:20, Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh., Gift of Steffi Domike, June 9, 1997., Steffi Domike moved to the Pittsburgh area to work as an electrician's apprentice at United States Steel's Clairton Coke Works. During her tenure there, she emerged as an active member of USWA Local 1557 and represented the local in the USWA District 15 Civil Rights Committee. In 1979, she ran for recording secretary of the local. Domike was involved in Steelworkers Stand Up, a newsletter which described problems and spread notice of important union events at the Clairton Coke Works and other mills. She also played an active role in women's rights within the steel industry by contributing to Women of Steel newsletters and organizing meetings prior to the 1976 USWA International Constitutional Convention in which amendments regarding union women's rights were to be presented. After being laid off in 1982 with thousands of other steelworkers, Domike joined the Mon Valley Unemployed Steelworkers Committee ("Steelworkers" was later removed) and their St. Peter's Church Food Bank, located in McKeesport. She also enrolled in the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh Film Makers to study filmmaking. With three other women from the Mon Valley Unemployed Committee (MVUC), Domike used student interviewers to create an oral history project and book called Crashin' Out: Hard Times in McKeesport which compared the decline of the steel industry in the 1980s with the Great Depression of the 1930s. Domike and three other MVUC committee members also produced Women of Steel, an award winning 1985 documentary about the lives of three women steelworkers. Her other film and television projects include: Life Without Father, Out of this Furnace: A Walking Tour of Thomas Bell's Novel, the instructional program Win-Win Bargaining, and the WQED TV series Labor's Corner. Probably her most influential film is the 1992 documentary The River Ran Red. Co-produced with Nicole Fauteux, this film documents the conflict between the steelworkers and the Carnegie Steel Company and Pinkerton Guards at Homestead in 1892. The film is complemented by a collection of source readings, compiled by Domike and Fauteux, with the same title. Domike continues to work as an activist and has recently created a board game with Lisa Freeland which takes a critical look at the Patriot Act. She has also created various works of art on feminist, environmentalist, and labor themes., Inventory Available in repository and on Internet; Folder level control; http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?type=simple;c=ascead;view=text;subview=outline;didno=US-PPiU-ais199720
- Publisher
- Contributor
- Domike, Steffi., University of Pittsburgh (depositor)
- Date
- 1946-1994
- Type
- Collection, Text, Minutes., Newsletters., Photographs.
- Format
- Identifier
- pitt:US-PPiU-ais199720, oclc: ocm50820440, oclc: 50820440, pitt: US-PPiU-ais199720
- Source
- Language
- eng
- Relation
- http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?type=simple;c=ascead;view=text;subview=outline;didno=US-PPiU-ais199720, pdcp_noharvest
- Coverage
- Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh region, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh region, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh Region, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh region, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh region, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh region, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh region, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh region, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh region, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh region, Pittsburgh (Pa.), Allegheny County (Pa.), Clairton (Pa.)
- Rights
- Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use., http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/