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Synopsis: Thousands of young women now work in foreign owned factories in Vietnam for approximately $2 a day. This film shows the lives of these young rural women who end up in a Japanese Canon factory in the Hanoi area. Hoping to make a new life with many consumer goods around them they are ground up in the capitalist system and their dreams and illusions about the new Vietnam are crushed.

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Posted by iwwggrandson on June 13, 2012 in Documentary, Global Economy, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Manufacturing, Migrant workers, Women

The Blue Collar Worker and the Hairdresser in a Whirl of Sex and Politics (1996)

13 Jun

101m; Italy

Director: Lina Wertmüller

Cast: Tullio Solenghi, Gene Gnocchi and Veronica Pivetti

Synopsis (Amazon): It’s spontaneous combustion when Tunin meets Rossella at a victory rally the night of the hotly contested election. She’s a right wing pro-business zealot. He’s a leftist labor organizer whose libido shifts into overdrive the moment he sees the fiery Rossella. Tunin’s determined to seduce her, but Rossella conceives her own plan to deal with the self-centered Lothario. Only two obstacles stand in the way of a blissful union – their politics and his wife. Passion and politics run amok in this delightfully sexy farce, the latest from director Lina Wertmuller.

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Posted by iwwggrandson on June 13, 2012 in Big Business/Corporations, Collective Bargaining, Comedy, Communism/Socialism, Organizing

Work, Play and Community

13 Jun

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Posted by iwwggrandson on June 13, 2012 in Documentary

Tags: Canada

Workers’ Voices (2009)

13 Jun

2.5m; U.K.

Director: Gary Williams

Synopsis: Three school meals workers talk about their jobs and working for Chartwell’s. Filmed as part of the UNISON Three Companies project organizing blitz on 4th November 2009

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Posted by iwwggrandson on June 13, 2012 in Documentary, Education, Organizing

Tags: Food Service Industry