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Trading Places (1983)

13 Jun

116m; U.S.

Director: John Landis

Cast: Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd and Ralph Bellamy

Synopsis (IMDB): Louis Winthorpe is a businessman who works for commodities brokerage firm of Duke and Duke owned by the brothers Mortimer and Randolph Duke. Now they bicker over the most trivial of matters and what they are bickering about is whether it’s a person’s environment or heredity that determines how well they will do in life. When Winthorpe bumps into Billy Ray Valentine, a street hustler and assumes he is trying to rob him, he has him arrested. Upon seeing how different the two men are, the brothers decide to make a wager as to what would happen if Winthorpe loses his job, his home and is shunned by everyone he knows and if Valentine was given Winthorpe’s job. So they proceed to have Winthorpe arrested and to be placed in a compromising position in front of his girlfriend. So all he has to rely on is the hooker who was hired to ruin him.

 

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Comedy, Finance, White Collar, Working Class

 

Transnational Tradeswomen (2006)

13 Jun
2006, 62 minutes, Color, DVD, Thai, Chinese, Tamil, Urdu, Japanese, SubtitledtransnationalTradeswomen2
available from Women Make Movies
Inspired by organizers at the Beijing Conference on Women in 1995, former construction worker Vivian Price spent years documenting the current and historical roles of women in the construction industry in Asia – discovering several startling facts. Capturing footage that shatters any stereotypes of delicate, submissive Asian women, Price discovers that women in many parts of Asia have been doing construction labor for centuries. But conversations with these women show that development and the resulting mechanization are pushing them out of the industry. Their stories disturb the notion of “progress” that many people hold and show how globalization, modernization, education and technology don’t always result in gender equality and the alleviation of poverty.Celebrating a range of women workers – from a Japanese truck driver, to two young Pakistani women working on a construction site in Lahore, to a Taiwanese woman doing concrete work alongside her husband – this film deftly probes the connections in their experiences. In a segment exploring the history of the Samsui women in Singapore (Chinese women who were recruited as construction laborers in the 1920’s until they lost their jobs to mechanization in the 1970’s) unique archival footage and interviews with surviving Samsui offer an importation perspective on the historical and global scope of women workers’ struggles.

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Construction Trades, Documentary, Women

 

The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal (1979)

13 Jun

120m; U.S.

Director: Mel Stuart

Cast: David Dukes, Tovah Feldshuh and Lauren Frost

Synopsis (IMDB): The story of a fire in the Triangle Shirtwaist building in New York City in 1911 that resulted in the deaths of 146 employees, mostly young women. The ensuing investigation revealed the company’s almost total disregard for its workers’ safety in pursuit of increased production and profits, and resulted, among other things, in the passage of new worker safety laws.

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Drama, Labor History, Safety & Health, Textile Industry

 

The Triangle Fire

13 Jun

52m; U.S.

Director: Roy Campolongo

Synopsis: The Triangle Fire documentary chronicles those remarkable times, when the rising forces of industry converged with the greatest mass migration in history. We explore the dramatic events of the late 19th, and early 20th century labor movement, that reached a crescendo with the Triangle shirtwaist factory fire of 1911. This film examines the relationship between New York’s rapidly growing metropolis, corrupt political infrastructure, an industry’s desire for profit, and the human rights of its workers. Furthermore, the documentary investigates how we have adapted today, to those epic events that would forever change the fabric of our nation.  Part of PBS’ “American Experience” series.

Contact: View online here: http://video.pbs.org/video/1817898383

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Available Online, Communism/Socialism, Documentary, Immigrants/Immigration, Labor History, Safety & Health, Textile Industry, Women

 

Tribute to Eliseo Medina (2006)

13 Jun

17m; U.S.

Synopsis: Story of Medina, who became UFCW VP and then SEIU VP, leading movement to organize immigrant workers and fight for immigration reform.

Contact: luciaduncan@gmail.com Jennifer.Wynter-Philis@seiu.org

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Biography, Collective Bargaining, Documentary, Immigrants/Immigration

 

Trouble Sleeping (2008)

13 Jun

42m; Ireland

Director: Robert Rae

Synopsis: Survivors of torture that become refugees in Edinburgh.

Contact: ktough@twe.org.uk 07971590315 (Cell)

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Documentary, Immigrants/Immigration, Politics

 

Trouble on Fashion Avenue (1982)

13 Jun

60m; U.S.

Director: Claude Beller and Stefan Moore

Synopsis: Examines the economic problems of the New York City garment industry, including sweatshop working conditions, the plight of the working poor, the state of trade unionism, the impact of imports, and the role of organized crime in the apparel industry.  – http://cinemaguild.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TCGS&Product_Code=1539

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Documentary, Textile Industry

 

Trouble the Water (2008)

13 Jun

90m; U.S.

Director: Carl Deal, Tia Lessin

Synopsis: A redemptive tale of an aspiring rap artist surviving failed levees and her own troubled past and seizing a chance for a new beginning in post-Katrina New Orleans.

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Blacks, Documentary

 

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Troublesome Creek (1995)

13 Jun

88m; U.S.

Director: Steven Ascher, Jeanne Jordan

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Documentary

 

Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)

13 Jun

110m; U.S.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Cast: Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen and Martin Landau

Synopsis (IMDB): Based on a true story. Shortly after World War II, Preston Tucker is a grandiose schemer with a new dream, to produce the best cars ever made. With the assistance of Abe Karatz and some impressive salesmanship on his own part, he obtains funding and begins to build his factory. The whole movie also has many parallels with director Coppola’s own efforts to build a new movie studio of his own.

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Drama

 
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