For Pete, settling down with a wife and son meant giving up his unstable musical career to work for a third-rate supermarket chain.
- Cast: Parker Posey, Eric Mabius, Annie Parisse
Category Archives: Occupation/Type of Work
Twin Cities Assembly Plant: A Job and a Family
- Format: DVD Video, 40 min., with bonus 14 min. slideshow
- Publisher: Labor Education Service, U of MN
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- Product ##: 7517
The history of the Twin Cities Ford Assembly Plant, United Auto Workers Local 879 and the unique community of workers in St. Paul’s Highland Park neighborhood.
Since 1925, Ford Motor Company has operated a manufacturing plant on the banks of the Mississippi River in Saint Paul’s Highland Park neighborhood, employing thousands of workers. This documentary tells the history of the Twin Cities Assembly Plant, United Auto Workers Local 879 and the unique community both hourly and salaried workers created inside and outside the factory.
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Another Promise (2014)
original title: Another Family
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoDM1d8aqJ4
Based on a true story of a working-class family whose daughter went to work at Samsung semiconductor factory, contracted leukemia during her time there and died from the disease in 2007.
Crowd-Sourced Film on Samsung Debuts
http://blogs.wsj.com/korearealtime/2013/10/09/crowd-sourced-film-on-samsung-debuts/
Popieluszko – Freedom Is Within Us
Another contemporary take on a life story on early-‘Solidarity’ union hero; more about struggle for freedom than labour struggles
In 1984 Jerzy Popiełuszko, widely known as the “Solidarność-Priest” for his role in the resistance against communism, was murdered by agents of the Polish internal intelligence agency. This film debut attracted over 1,3 million cinema viewers in Poland.
http://www.filmfestivalcottbus.de/en/archive/2012/films/pgm_id=1296&film_id=970&seite=3
Black Thursday (CZARNY CZWARTEK)
by Antoni Krauze (Poland) – contemporary take on the tragic events when Gdansk shipyard workers were killed by police during strike of December 1970 – got a FIPRESCI PRIZE (FIPRESCI Prize for a film in the World Competition) award at 37th Montreal World Film Festival.
Still a painfully remembered event, the brutally suppressed shipyard strikes of December 1970 get a stirring, street-level dramatization from Antoni Krauze that focuses on the tragic story of Brunon Drywa and family. When protests spread among coastal towns, troops in Gdynia responded by firing on people on their way to work; the victims would include Drywa, who was shot in the back. Filming on historic locations in Gdynia, Krauze forcefully brings to the screen a rarely depicted yet pivotal chapter in Polish history.
Women’s Day (Dzien Kobiet)
Halina is promoted to store manager of the supermarket chain „Motylek“ („Butterfly“). But her life as chief is just transient when she finds herself being abandoned by the system for being overly humane. Social-critical feature film debut by the famous Polish musician Maria Sadowska.’ The chains’ name ‘Butterfly’ is a paraphrase of an existing Portuguese-owned chain of discount supermarkets in Poland, which were infamous for the treatment of the workforce until unionised by NSZZ “Solidarność”
http://www.filmfestivalcottbus.de/en/archive/2012/films/pgm_id=1269&film_id=992&seite=3
Dogtown Redemption
(Amir Soltani, 2014, film in post production) America’s untouchables who survive by recycling trash in Oakland, CA.
http://www.redemptiondoc.org/
American Made Movie
(Nathaniel Thomas McGill & Vincent Vittorio, 2013, 82 min) The positive impact of domestic manufacturing jobs on national and local economies in the face of declining employment in this sector.
http://theamericanmademovie.com/
Temple Grandin
(Mick Jackson, 2010, 107 min)
A biopic of Temple Grandin, an autistic woman who has become one of the top scientists in the humane livestock handling industry.
http://www.hbo.com/movies/temple-grandin
Nachtschicht (Night Shift)
2011
Directed by: Timo Grosspietsch
Documentary Feature (65 minutes)
A butcher, a post office worker, a taxi driver, a nurse and a deejay are accompanied during their night in Hamburg. Documentary filmmaker and cameraman Timo Grosspietsch observes with his camera in such a way that involves the audience immediately. It is a quiet film that leaves room for the people portrayed and depicts their workplace in carefully composed images. It documents the tough daily life of those whose jobs nobody really wants to do anymore.
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