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A. PHILIP RANDOLPH: FOR JOBS AND FREEDOM
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DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 86 minutes, 1996,  |
| A biography of the labor, activist and pioneer civil rights leader who organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters led the fight to desegregate the military and defense industries, and planted the seeds for the 1963 March on Washington. MORE... |
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AT THE RIVER I STAND
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 56 minutes, 1993 |
| During two eventful months in 1968, what began as a local labor dispute between striking African American sanitation workers and the white power structure of Memphis grew into the devastating tragedy of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and a national struggle for racial and economic justice. It marked a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement MORE... |
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BROTHER OUTSIDER: THE LIFE OF BAYARD RUSTIN
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DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 83 minutes, 2002,
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| On November 20, 2013, Bayard Rustin was posthumously awarded the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama. Who was this man? Bayard Rustin is best remembered as the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, one of the largest nonviolent protests ever held in the United States. His activism for peace, racial equality, economic justice and human rights, and how he navigated through his life and career as an openly gay man are the themes of this portrait. MORE... |
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THE BUSINESS OF AMERICA...
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 45 minutes, 1984 |
| An exploration of supply side economics and the trickle down myth as exemplified by Pittsburgh's declining steel industry. MORE... |
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CLOCKWORK
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 25 minutes, 1982 |
| The only film on Frederick Taylor's work and its continuing influence on the modern workplace. The film includes original historical footage which Taylor and his contemporaries, the Gilbreths, shot for the pioneering time-motion studies which paved the way for the modern automated assembly line and unskilled factory worker. MORE... |
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COLLISION COURSE
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 47 minutes, 1988 |
| A case study of Eastern Airlines tracing the rise and fall of the workplace initiative, creativity and cooperation that pulled it out of bankruptcy. MORE... |
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CONTROLLING INTEREST
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 45 minutes, 1978 |
| Controlling Interest offered the first account on film of the growth of multinational corporations, their impact on people at home and abroad, and their influence on U.S. foreign policy. MORE... |
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FINAL OFFER
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 78 minutes, 1985 |
| A case study of the collective bargaining process during contract negotiations between General Motors and the U.A.W. MORE... |
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FIVE FACTORIES: WORKER CONTROL IN VENEZUELA
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 81 minutes, Venezuela, 2006, In Spanish with English subtitles |
| 5 Factories provides a penetrating look at the Bolivarian socio-economic project designed to challenge the dominant neo-liberal development model. MORE... |
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A KILLER BARGAIN
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 57 minutes, 2006 |
| The killer bargain referred to by this documentary's title is the availability of cheap consumer goods, imported by Western companies, whose prices don't reflect the human and environmental costs of their production. MORE... |
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