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Diamond Men (2001)

21 Feb

100m

Director: Dan Cohen

Synopsis (Diamond Men): Eddie Miller (Robert Forster) has been selling jewelry to small stores in Pennsylvania for 30 years. After suffering a heart attack, he is told that he is no longer “insurable” to carry a line worth over a million dollars.  The only way Eddie can continue to work in the business he clings to for support is by breaking in his own replacement, Bobby Walker (Donnie Wahlberg), a brash kid whose every move rubs him the wrong way.

Website: http://www.diamondmen.com/

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Drama, Retail

 

Digital Handcraft. China`s Global Factory for Computers (2008)

21 Feb

28m; Germany

Director: Alexandra Welt

Synopsis: Digital handcraft is an educational film, a portrait of the process of computer hardware production. It displays the organisation of production in global value chains and investigates the conditions of life and labour for millions of migrant worker in China’s factories, which manufacture the hardware for the immaterial production of the 21st century. This film takes a look at the flipside of globalised computer production, which is incongruous with the “clean” image the industry usually displays. By interviewing both activists and workers, the film investigates the current situation as well as future possibilities for improving their situation. Furthermore, the film looks at issues surrounding the illegal shipping of computer scrap parts from Germany to developing countries.

Contact: http://vimeo.com/18616242 PARKAFILM Alexandra Weltz aw@parkafilm.cc

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Available Online, Documentary, Global Economy, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Safety & Health, Streaming Online (Youtube, Vimeo)

 

Directions: The Fight Against Black Monday (1978)

21 Feb

27m; U.S.

Director: Marc Siegel

Synopsis: Story of 5,000 steelworkers who lost their jobs when Lykes Corporation closed the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. The plant reopened under worker-community ownership.

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Documentary, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Organizing, Working Class

 

Discounted Lives (1995)

21 Feb

30m

Director: Will Durst

Synopsis (WordCat): Discusses the difficulties faced by K-Mart warehouse employees during their attempts to organize unions at the Manteno, Illinois and Greensboro, N.C. locations.

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Documentary, Organizing, Retail

 

Documentary on the lives of contract workers in cement MNCs in India (2009)

21 Feb

14m; India

Synopsis: Documents the lives of contract workers in the cement industry in India.

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Documentary, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing

 

Dollar A Day, 10 Cents a Dance (1984)

21 Feb

30m; U.S.

Director: Geoffrey Dunn

Synopsis: Filipino immigrant farmworkers in the Pajardo (CA) Valley.

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Documentary, Farm & Food, Immigrants/Immigration

 

The Dollmaker (1984)

21 Feb

150m; U.S.

Director: Daniel Petrie

Cast: Jane Fonda, Mike Bacarella, Etel Billig and Phyllis Boyens

Synopsis (IMDB): Jane Fonda gives an Emmy-winning performance as Gertie Nevels, a pioneer woman and the mother of five from the Kentucky hills who is forced to uproot her children to follow her husband Clovis (Levon Helm) to Detroit when he finds work during World War II. One setback follows another and shattering tragedy strikes the family. It’s all up to Gertie to find new strength, courage and determination to keep her family together and strong.

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Drama, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Women, Working Class

 

Down and Out in America (1986)

21 Feb

57m; U.S.

Director: Lee Grant

Cast: Lee Grant, Jeff Farmer and Bob Hanson

Synopsis: Three sectors of American society hit by recession in the mid-1980s: heartland farms, factory workers out of a job, and the new homeless. In Minnesota, 250 family farms are being repossesed each week; men and women talk about their farms, the nature of their bank loans, the onslaught of corporate farming, and their sorrow and despair. In cities where 3,500 jobs per day go overseas, unemployed workers contemplate their options. The newly homeless talk about the jobs they’ve lost, “Justice Ville” in Los Angeles (bulldozed by court order), and squatting in New York’s abandoned buildings. A family living in a welfare hotel tells their story.

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Documentary, Farm & Food, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Politics, Working Class

 

Earl Robinson: Ballad of an American (1994)

21 Feb

60m; U.S.

Director: Bette Jean Bullert

Synopsis: This portrait aired on several major public television stations in the late 1990s. It captures the life and music of the composer of “Joe Hill,” “Black and White,” “Ballad for Americans” and other songs that convey the hopeful, progressive spirit of his generation. Rich in archival footage, this documentary includes performances of Robinson’s songs by Joan Baez, Frank Sinatra, Paul Robeson, Josh White, Three Dog Night, Peter, Paul & Mary, and of course, Earl himself. Judy Collins narrates.

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Documentary, Entertainment Industry, Organizing, Politics, Working Class

 

Edge of the City (1957)

21 Feb

85m; U.S.

Director: Martin Ritt

Cast:  John Cassavetes, Sidney Poitier and Jack Warden

Synopsis: Two New York City longshoremen Axel Nordmann, an Army deserter and Tommy Tyler, an easy-going freight car loader whose growing friendship is threatened by Charles Malik, a notably repellent punk.

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Blacks, Drama, Transportation, Working Class

 
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