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Rancho California (Por Favor) [2003]

14 Apr

59m

Director: John Caldwell

Synopsis (Berkeley Media): This thought-provoking, widely acclaimed visual essay provides a troubling journey through migrant farmworker camps in suburban southern California — Rancho de los Diablos, Kelly Camp, Porterville, McGonigle Canyon — where homeless indigenous Mixteco workers coexist near gated designer-home enclaves in Carlsbad, La Costa, Encinitas, and Del Mar.

In a remarkable feat of artistic and political fusion, the film explores the charged debate over the meaning and consequences of immigrant culture near America’s southern border, and along the way examines the complex realities of race and class in this country.

Website: http://www.berkeleymedia.com/catalog/berkeleymedia/films/american_studies/rancho_california_por_favor

 
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Posted by on April 14, 2012 in Documentary, Farm & Food, Migrant workers

 

Sometimes I Run: Stanley Maupin, Sidewalk Flusher (1973)

14 Apr

21m

Director: Blaine Dunlap

Synopsis (Southeast Media Preservation Lab): Portrait of Stanley Maupin, sidewalk flusher on the late-night streets of Dallas, Texas. Filmed in the winter of 1972-1973.

Website: http://analoglab.drupalgardens.com/content/sometimes-i-run

 
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Posted by on April 14, 2012 in Documentary, Public Sector, Working Class

 

Taylor Chain II: A Story of Collective Bargaining (1983)

08 Apr

30m

Directors: Jerry Blumenthal, Gordon Quinn

Synopsis (Kartemquin): In 1981-2, the Kartemquin filmmakers returned to the Taylor Chain plant to show labor and management working together against the odds, trying to save the plant from becoming the latest victim of anti-union legislation and the globalization of cheap, exploitable labor.

 
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Posted by on April 8, 2012 in Collective Bargaining, Documentary, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing

 

Trash Dance (2012)

06 Apr

65m

Director: Andrew Garrison
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Synopsis (Trash Dance): Sometimes inspiration can be found in unexpected places. Choreographer Allison Orr finds beauty and grace in garbage trucks, and in the men and women who pick up our trash. Filmmaker Andrew Garrison follows Orr as she joins city sanitation workers on their daily routes to listen, learn, and ultimately to convince them to collaborate in a unique dance performance. Hard working, often carrying a second job, their lives are already full with work, family and dreams of their own. But some step forward, and after months of rehearsal, two dozen trash collectors and their trucks perform an extraordinary spectacle. On an abandoned airport runway, thousands of people show up to see how in the world a garbage truck can “dance.”

Website: http://trashdancemovie.com

 
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Posted by on April 6, 2012 in Documentary, Public Sector

 

Employee’s Entrance (1933)

06 Apr

75m

Director: Roy del Ruth

Synopsis (WorldCat): A pre-code film about a heartless manager of a department store who makes a penniless woman pay dearly for her job. He forbids his apprentice to marry, but the apprentice secretly marries a bride with secrets of her own.

 
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Posted by on April 6, 2012 in Drama, Retail, Women

 

Who Needs Sleep? (2006)

31 Mar

78m

Director: Haskell Wexler

Synopsis: “Ahhh… the glamorous life in Hollywood. Or is it? Film crews routinely work sweatshop hours, often clocking 15 to 18 hour days at the expense of their families, their health, their well-being, and even their lives.

In 1997, after a 19-hour day on the set, assistant cameraman Brent Hershman fell asleep behind the wheel, crashed his car, and died. Deeply disturbed by Hershman’s preventable death, filmmaker and multiple-Oscar-winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler shows how sleep deprivation and long work hours are a lethal combination. Who Needs Sleep? is a commentary on our quality of life.”

http://whoneedssleep.weebly.com/index.html

 
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Posted by on March 31, 2012 in Documentary, Entertainment Industry, Safety & Health

 

La Belle Equipe (1936)

30 Mar

101m; France

Director: Julien Duvivier

Synopsis: Five unemployed workers unsuccessfully attempt to pool resources to get a music hall running.

 
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Posted by on March 30, 2012 in Arts/Culture, Drama, Entertainment Industry, Working Class

 

La Bete Humiaine (1938)

30 Mar

90m; France

Director: Jean Renoir

Synopsis: Railroad workers and love, lust, and the murder.

 
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Posted by on March 30, 2012 in Drama, Transportation, Working Class

 

La Huelga: The struggle of the UFW (2009)

30 Mar

18m; U.S.

Director: Alex Ivany

Synopsis: The legacy of Cesar Chavez and the union movement he inspired.

Contact: alex@sandraivany.com

 
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Posted by on March 30, 2012 in Documentary, Farm & Food, Immigrants/Immigration, Organizing, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts

 

The Labor Movement: Beginnings and Growth in America (1959)

30 Mar

14m; U.S.

Director: Coronet Films

Synopsis: Developments in labor’s organization in the US from 1873 through the merger of the AFL and CIO. The role played by Samuel Gompers, the Knights of Labor and the AFL-CIO are traced.

 
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Posted by on March 30, 2012 in Documentary, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Labor History, Organizing, Politics, Safety & Health, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts, Working Class

 
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