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The Last Pullman Car (1984)

13 Jun

53m; U.S.
Director: Jenny Rohrer, Greg LeRoy
http://www.kartemquin.com/films/the-last-pullman-car

Synopsis: In 1864, George Pullman began selling his famous railroad sleeping cars which helped him build a vast industrial empire that was supposed to last forever. In 1981, however, Pullman workers found themselves in the midst of a fight not only for their jobs but the future of the American rail car industry. One hundred years of government, union and corporate policies are traced in this engaging story.

Contact: Available from New Day Films 22 Riverview Drive, Wayne, NJ 07470.

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Documentary, Labor History, Manufacturing, Transportation, Working Class

 

The Last Communist (2006)

13 Jun

90m; Malaysia

Director: Amir Muhammad

Synopsis: A travel documentary essay, interspersed with specially composed songs, about the early life and legacy of Chin Peng, exiled leader of the banned Communist Party of Malaya.

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Communism/Socialism, Documentary

 

The Long March, The BTR Strike (1986)

13 Jun

26m; South Africa

Director: Open Eye Productions

Synopsis: Strike of South African workers.

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Documentary, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts

 

The Law of Profit (2007)

13 Jun

81m; Spain

Director: Jawad Rhalib

Synopsis: Where do the perfect fruits and vegetables of Europe come from? This film shows the deplorable conditions of the more than 80,000 Moroccan immigrants living and literally slaving under the plastic sheet that protect the crops, and above all, the laws of profit in southern Spain.

Contact: Clap d’Ort Films Sprl + 32 485 709 737 mo@clapdortfilms.be / http://elejidothelawofprofit.blogspot.com jrhalib@latchodrom.be

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Documentary, Farm & Food, Immigrants/Immigration, Migrant workers

 

The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant (2009)

13 Jun

40m; U.S.

Director: Steve Bognar & Julia Reichert

Synopsis: An intimate look at the final days of a General Motors Plant in Moraine, Ohio, and the lives of the workers affected by its closing.

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Documentary, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Manufacturing, Unemployment-Wages

 

The Mall (2006)

13 Jun

13m; Israel

Director: Yonatan Ben Efrat

Synopsis: At one of central Israel’s largest junctions, in a surreal underground world, live hundreds of Palestinian workers in hiding in order to find a day’s work and bring something home to their families in the West Bank. Deep in the concrete skeleton of an abandoned shopping mall, the workers sleep during the week. Those who have been arrested in the past confirm that the mall is worse than jail, yet they don’t ask for freedom – they only want a day’s work.

Contact: 2009 Geneva Labour Film Shorts Festival World Health Organisation and Video 48

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Documentary, Migrant workers, Politics, Service Workers

 

The Maid / La Nana (2009)

13 Jun

95m; Chile
Director: Sebastián Silva
Cast: Catalina Saavedra, Claudia Celedón and Alejandro Goic

Synopsis: Story of how a maid called Raquel, who has worked for over 20 years in one affluent Chilean household, rediscovers herself. La Nana is a microcosm of Latin social hierarchy while also focusing on one woman’s journey to free herself from a mental servitude of her own making.

Contact: http://www.themaidmovie.com/ JACOB WOLTERS Oscilloscope Laboratories 511 Canal Street, 5E New York, NY 10013 212.219.4029 ex. 38(p) 212.219.9538 (f) jacob@oscilloscope.net

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Drama, Service Workers

 

The Murals and Art of Bernard Zakheim (2009)

13 Jun

27m; U.S.

Director: Margot Smith

Synopsis: Bernard Zakheim (1896 – 1985) was born in Poland and came to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1918. He was well known for his many murals and frescos financed in part by the Works Progress Administration under Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 1930s New Deal. Nathan and Masha Zakheim, Bernard’s son and daughter, tell of their father’s work in Poland, the story of the Coit Tower murals, of his Holocaust paintings and his later work celebrating life. Murals shown here include The Library at Coit Tower, The Jewish Wedding at the San Francisco Community Center, and The History of Medicine in California at Toland Hall, University of California, San Francisco.

Contact: offcentervideo@aol.com http://www.offcentervideo.com

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Arts/Culture, Documentary, Immigrants/Immigration, Working Class

 

The Motherhood Manifesto

13 Jun

2007, US, 58 minutes
Directed by Laura Pacheco
Produced by John de Graaf and Laura Pacheco
Writer – John de Graaf
Executive Producer – Joan Blades
Photographer/Editor – Diana Wilmar
Music – Claudia Schmidt
Narrator – Mary Steenburgen

Looks at the obstacles facing working mothers and families and the employer and public policy changes needed to restore work-life balance.

 

 

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Children, Documentary, Service Workers, Women

 

The Nanny Business (2010)

13 Jun

44m; Canada

Director: Shelley Saywell

Synopsis: Traces the story of Edelyn Pineda who left her three children behind and paid thousands of dollars to a recruitment agency in Canada to make the arrangements and book her with a family. She arrived to discover that the agent had taken her fee but the “employer” who signed her contract was not interested in her services. Joelina Maluto came to Canada after working in Hong Kong and the Middle East because “I heard Canada was a good country, and after two years I could bring my children here.” Instead, she arrived to find she had no job and was forced to live in her agent’s basement with 16 other nannies for the next 2 and a half months. When the agent finally got her a job, the employer forced her to work 18 hour days. Edelyn and Joelina were among several nannies brave enough to go public about their experiences in the hope of forcing change. Their stories are put into wider context by journalist Susan McClelland, whose own search for a nanny led her to this story, and whose subsequent article “Nanny Abuse” for Walrus Magazine won an Amnesty Award.

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Documentary, Service Workers, Women

 
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