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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

 

Ford and Taylor Scientific Management

 

The Lithuanian Jungle – Upton Sinclair-inspired Documentary

Trailer for “The Lithuanian Jungle”, the documentary feature film from Storytellers International coming in 2011. The film is based on the characters in the book “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair. Filmed on location in Chicago and told in a investigative journalism style by filmmakers Randy Richards, Giedrius Subacius and Risé Sanders, this documentary reveals the unknown characters behind the literary classic.

 

Andrew Carnegie and the Homestead Strike

Andrew Carnegie and the Homestead Strike

 

The Homestead Steel Strike of 1892

 

Haymarket Martyrs–Origins of International Workers Day

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w-z8ud_9QU
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKkEl9XzjFc

 

Sunlight Jr.,

In Laurie Collyer’s “Sunlight Jr.,” Naomi Watts and Matt Dillon play unmarried lovers with no way out of the minimum-wage working class.
http://nyti.ms/1aWuJWt

 

Together: How Cooperatives Show Resilience To The Crisis

http://www.together-thedocumentary.coop/#!the-documentary/cadp

It’s a fact. In Europe, 1.5 million workers co-own their enterprises. They are called worker cooperatives, social cooperatives or participative enterprises. The documentary TOGETHER reveals, through extensive research and exclusive interviews, why those enterprises show a major resilience to the crisis and its consequences through 4 examples: a mineral water plant in Poland (Muszynianka), a company in crisis transformed into a worker cooperative in France (Fonderie de l’Aisne), a consortium of social cooperatives in Italy (Consorzio SIS) and one of Spain’s main business groups (MONDRAGON Corporation).

Year: 2012
Country: Belgium/Spain.
Running time: 39 min.
Audio format: English, French, Italian & Spanish
Genre: Documentary
Producer:​ CECOP-CICOPA Europe
Managing producer:​ Leire Luengo​
Production company: m30m
Director: Ana Sánchez.​
Scriptwriters: Bruno Roelants, Olivier Biron, Leire Luengo, Ana Sánchez
Director of Photography: José Luis Fernández

 

Inequality For All (2013)

http://inequalityforall.com/

Jacob Kornbluth, 2013, 89 min
Former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich looks to raise awareness of the country’s widening economic gap.

 

The Caretaker

7:19m
Theo Rigby/Kate McLean
A short documentary explores the tender relationship between a caretaker who is an undocumented immigrant and an elderly woman in the last months of her life.