Abstract
Evelyn Desmarais hated working for Coors. Hired in 1974, she was one of the first women to work on the brewery floor and described the work as “hell.” Despite a company doctor’s diagnosis of amblyopia (often referred to as “lazy eye”), Desmarais’s first job was on a fast-moving bottle inspection line, where she was responsible for visually examining seven bottles per second. After a few weeks, she told her supervisor she could not keep up: the strain on her vision was too much, and she was worried about endangering consumers. Coors fired her. ¹ With the help of Brewery Workers