The story of an African-American cook working at an all-white fraternity house at the University of Mississippi.
Ten Dollars an Hour (Full Movie: 15m)
Tag Archives: Food Service Industry
The Dark Side of Chocolate (2010)
47m; Denmark
Director: Miki Mistrati and U Roberto Romano
Synopsis (IMDB): A team of journalists investigate how human trafficking and child labor in the Ivory Coast fuels the worldwide chocolate industry. The crew interview both proponents and opponents of these alleged practices, and use hidden camera techniques to delve into the gritty world of cocoa plantations.
Contact: http://www.thedarksideofchocolate.org/
The Stockyards: End of an Era
Synopsis: Film discusses the closing of the Chicago Stockyards, black struggles with union, history of work in yards, ethnic backgrounds.
The Waiters (2006)
85m; U.S.
Director: Derik Wingo
Cast: Derik Wingo, Lorrainne Petersen and Scott Vogel
Synopsis: Taylor Starks and his co-workers, all aspiring actors, toil in a Los Angeles restaurant while “waiting” for their big break.
The World According To Monsanto (2008)
109m; France
Director: Marie-Monique Robin
Synopsis: Marie-Monique Robin has produced a powerful and frightening film in understanding the danger on a global level of out of control genetic engineering and the food industry. Workers, farmers, consumers and the environmentalists are all threatened by the unregulated development and growth products from this industry. The US media have censored the role of Monsanto and other biotech companies in spreading genetically engineered products that are harmful to workers in the laboratory, farmers and consumers around the world.Injured biotech worker David Bell who worked at Agraquest in Davis, which was owned by a former Monsanto Pest Division molecular biologist Pam Marrone, is one of the victims of this unbridled development and cover-up by the biotech industry.
Watsonville on Strike (1989)
65m; U.S.
Director: Jon Silver
Synopsis: Teamster cannery workers’ 18-month struggle.
