|
|
 |
|
|
|
| Labor Studies
|
|
| Videos on labor. |
| |
|
|
| Labor Studies |
20 Titles |
Page:
1
,
2
|
|
|
|
|
MADE IN CHINA
|
|
|
|
|
| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 52 minutes, China, 2007, English |
| Made in China tells one of the millions of stories of migrants from rural China who comprise the backbone of the Chinese economic miracle. It provides a human face behind the ubiquitous label "Made in China." MORE... |
|
|
MADE IN L.A.
(HECHO EN LOS ANGELES)
|
|
|
|
|
70 minutes, 2007, In Spanish and English with bilingual subtitles and 10 other languages
Facilitator Guide Available |
| A new 2-DVD Toolkit containing the film, 6 new video modules and a detailed discussion guide, all accessible in 12 languages, is now available directly from the filmmakers. Visit http://madeinla.com/Toolkit.html for more information. MORE... |
|
|
MAQUILAPOLIS
(City of Factories)
|
|
|
|
|
DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 68 minutes, 2006,  English Closed Captions, In Spanish with English subtitles
Facilitator Guide Available |
| The inspiring story of women workers in Tijuana who, though laboring for poverty wages, still stand up to transnational corporations to win severance pay and to clean up toxic waste sites. MORE... |
|
|
MILES OF SMILES, YEARS OF STRUGGLE
|
|
|
|
|
| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 58 minutes, 1989 |
| The story of the organizing of the first black trade union - The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters - provides an account of African American working life between the Civil War and World War II. MORE... |
|
|
SHATTERING THE SILENCES
|
|
|
|
|
DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 86 minutes, 1997
Facilitator Guide Available |
| Eight professors of color discuss the special pressures minority faculty face in majority white institutions. MORE... |
|
|
STRUGGLES IN STEEL
|
|
|
|
|
DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 58 minutes, 1996,
Facilitator Guide Available |
| Interviews with Black steelworkers recount the fight for equal opportunity on the job. MORE... |
|
|
THESE HANDS
|
|
|
|
|
| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 45 minutes, Tanzania, 1992, in Kimakonde and Swahili with English subtitles |
| Without plot or narration, this mesmerizing documentary records the dehumanizing monotony of a day in the life of women chipping rocks by hand in a Tanzanian quarry while discovering the communal warmth and joy that defies this spirit-breaking labor. MORE... |
|
|
UNNATURAL CAUSES
|
|
|
|
|
DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 7 episodes: 1x56mins, 6x26mins, 2008, , dual language disc - Menus, Audio and Subtitles in English and Spanish
Facilitator Guide Available |
| UNNATURAL CAUSES, for the first time on film, sounds the alarm about our disturbing socioeconomic and racial inequities in health - and searches for their root causes. But those causes are not what we might expect. There's much more to our health than bad habits, healthcare or unlucky genes. The social conditions in which we are born, live and work profoundly affect our well-being and longevity. MORE... |
|
|
WHERE DO YOU STAND? STORIES FROM AN AMERICAN MILL
|
|
|
|
|
DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 60 minutes, 2004,
Facilitator Guide Available |
| After a quarter century of struggle, mill workers in Kannapolis, North Carolina won the single largest industrial union victory in the history of the South in this Emmy Award Nominated film. MORE... |
|
|
THE WILLMAR 8
|
|
|
|
|
DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 50 minutes, 1980
Facilitator Guide Available |
| The story of eight women in America's heartland--Willmar, Minnesota--who were driven by sex discrimination at work to find themselves unexpectedly at the forefront of the struggle for women's rights. Risking jobs, friends, family and the opposition of church and community, they began the longest bank strike in American history in a dramatic attempt to assert their own equality and self-worth. MORE... |
|
|
|
