9 to 5: The Working Woman's Guide to Office Survival

by Ellen Cassedy, Karen Nussbaum, Jane Fonda (Foreword)

Fore every woman office worker, here is the complete guide to taking charge of your working life:
-Respect - getting credit for your suggestions, making your boss consider your career goals, and fighting sexual harassment
-Pay - judging if you are fairly paid and learning what to do about it if you're not
-Heath - rating your office for health and safety and identifying hidden office related health problems
-Office automation - anticipating your company's equipment purchases and making your needs understood
-The working family and older workers - urging your company to provide child care and flexible hours and evaluating your pension and Social Security benefits
-Organizing - what to do when individual action is not enough

If you are one of the millions of office workers seeking to improve your working conditions, this is the book you need.

173 pages, Paperback

First published October 27, 1983

About the author

Ellen Cassedy was a founder of 9 to 5, the movement of working women that mobilized for rights and respect on the job. "Working 9 to 5" is a first-person account of how a racially diverse group of women took on the corporate titans, organized a union, won victories from coast to coast – and inspired Jane Fonda’s hit movie and Dolly Parton’s enduring anthem.

In "We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust," Ellen Cassedy’s journey to connect with her Jewish family roots expands into a wider quest, offering hope for a more tolerant future. Winner of the Grub Street National Book Prize for Nonfiction, shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing.

Ellen Cassedy is a translator from Yiddish. "Oedipus in Brooklyn and Other Stories by Blume Lempel" (with Yermiyahu Ahron Taub) blends the realistic and the fantastic, the lyrical and the philosophical. Winner of the Leviant Memorial Prize from the Modern Language Association. "On the Landing: Stories by Yenta Mash" makes a major contribution to the literature of immigration and resilience.