28m; U.S.
Director: Randy Strothman
Synopsis: Women workers
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Women, Free Trade Zones and the Multinationals (1992)
58m; U.S.
Synopsis: Women in sweatshops and factories in Central and South America.
Work (1970)
15m; U.S.
Director: Fred Wardenburg
Synopsis: Film showing assembly line labor; provokes political analysis of alienated labor.
Work in Progress (2009)
12m; Canada
Synopsis: The life of an injured worker is seen through her challenges, both personal and the bureaucratic.
Workers Dreams (2007)
50m; Vietnam
Director: Tran Phuong Thao
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.
Workers In Peril, Union In Action (2009)
44m; Canada
Director: Michael Connolly
Synopsis: Covers the recent recession’s effect on workers, auto workers specifically. Also touches on pension and severance issues. Great footage and editing. Narrated by Jian Gomes.
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