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Rodosha (The Laborer) [2006]

30 Mar

20m; Japan

Director: Darryl Knickrehm

Synopsis: Kay Fujita, Tatsuya Masuda and Dan Yukino

Synopsis (IMDB): In a life of work, we work to live life. One businessman has the opportunity to take a step back and look at his life. To his dismay he sees a man who not only labored at work but also in life. The Laborer is a tale of two levels. It is a commentary of the workaholic lifestyles of the world. But more importantly it is the intimate story of a man who is detached from his feelings and as a result has prevented himself from taking the opportunities of life.

 
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Posted by on March 30, 2012 in Drama, White Collar

 

Labor’s Turning Point (1981)

30 Mar

59m; U.S

Director: John DeGraaf

Synopsis: The 1934 Minneapolis truck drivers’ strike was a pivotal struggle for working people of the mid-west. As a result of new tactics developed in the successful strike, it led to the organization of over the road truckers and the growth of the Teamsters nationally into one of the most important and powerful unions in the United States. The film shows how the strike was organized and how the union broke the back of the anti-union Citizen’s Alliance and made Minneapolis a union town. It also includes the ground breaking role of the strikers’ wives in organizing for the strike and the establishment of a daily strike bulletin. These tactics are still relevant today in the struggle of labor to organize and survive.

Contact: http://www.onedayinjuly.org/

 
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Posted by on March 30, 2012 in Documentary, Labor History, Organizing, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts, Transportation

 

Laila’s Birthday (2008)

30 Mar

71m; Palestine/Tunisia/Netherlands

Director: Rashid Masharawi

Cast: Mohammed Bakri, Areen Omari and Nour Zoubi

Synopsis (IMDB): Abu Laila used to be a judge, but because the government doesn’t have the means to renew his assignment he is forced to be a taxi driver. On the day his daughter Laila becomes seven years old his wife insists that he’ll be at home early and bring her a present and a cake. Abu Laila’s has nothing else on his mind then completing this mission. But the daily life in Palestine has other plans.

 
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Posted by on March 30, 2012 in Children, Drama, Politics, Service Workers, Working Class

 

Land Without Bread (1933)

30 Mar

30m; Spain

Director: Luis Buñuel

Cast: Abel Jacquin and Alexandre O’Neill

Synopsis (IMDB): A surrealistic documentary portrait of the region of Las Hurdes, a remote region of Spain where civilisation has barely developed, showing how the local peasants try to survive without even the most basic utilities and skills.

 
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Posted by on March 30, 2012 in Documentary, Farm & Food, Working Class

 

John & Jane Toll-Free (2005)

28 Mar

77m; India

Director: Ashim Ahluwalia

Synopsis: Eye-opening behind-the-scenes look at an Indian call-center.

 
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Posted by on March 28, 2012 in Documentary, Global Economy, Service Workers

 

Kick Like a Girl (2008)

28 Mar

25m; U.S.

Director: Jenny Mackenzie

Synopsis: A soccer team of third-grade girls in Utah can’t find adequate competition against other girls’ teams and decides to enter the local boys’ league instead. The 24-minute film follows their season and the reactions of girls, boys, and parents.

Contact: http://www.kicklikeagirlmovie.com/

 
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Posted by on March 28, 2012 in Children, Documentary, Sports, Women

 

Kinky Boots (2005)

28 Mar

107m; U.K.

Director: Julian Jarrold

Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Joel Edgerton, Sarah-Jane Potts

Synopsis (IMDB): A drag queen comes to the rescue of a man who, after inheriting his father’s shoe factory, needs to diversify his product if he wants to keep the business afloat.

 
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Posted by on March 28, 2012 in Comedy, Drama, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, White Collar, Working Class

 

The Kitchen (1961)

28 Mar

76m; U.K.

Director: James Hill

Cast: Carl Möhner, Mary Yeomans and Brian Phelan

Synopsis: Restaurant workers working in terrible conditions indis a “luxury” establishment; Marxist comment on the capitalist system.

 
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Posted by on March 28, 2012 in Drama, Service Workers

 

The Killing Floor (1985)

28 Mar

118m; U.S.
Director: Bill Duke
Cast: Cynthia Baker, Dennis Farina and Clarence Felder

Synopsis (IMDB): During World War I, a poor black Southerner travels north to Chicago to get work in the city’s slaughterhouses, where he becomes embroiled in the organized labor movement. He becomes prominent as a leader of fellow African-Americans in the union, though many, including his best friend, view him as a sell-out.

Contact: Elsa Rassbach elsarassbach@gmail.com http://www.thekillingfloor-thefilm.com

 
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Posted by on March 28, 2012 in A: Highly Recommended Labor Films, Blacks, Drama, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Outsourcing, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts

 

Kraft Television Theatre: “Patterns” (1955)

28 Mar

59m; U.S.

Director: Fielder Cook

Synopsis: A business psychological drama about a CEO of a company who tries to psychologically intimidate a Vice President into resigning (since at the VP and above level you don’t fire staff according to the CEO). This TV play centers around the interaction between the CEO and the VP, the CEO and the person that’s supposed to replace the VP (though he wasn’t hired knowing this), the CEO and the new hire and the new hire and the VP.

 
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Posted by on March 28, 2012 in Drama, White Collar

 
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