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Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain (2011)

24 Jan

U.S.

Director: Ravi Kumar

Cast: Martin Sheen, Mischa Barton and Kal Penn

Synopsis: The story follows a young rickshaw-puller in Bhopal who gets a menial job at a chemical plant, but in December of 1984 a chemical spill in India takes the lives of almost 15,000 people and injuring more than 100,000. The film follows how the industrial disaster in the city changes his life and those of others. Stories of people in India and US as they face dilemmas of life time in the months leading to the biggest Industrial disaster in human history.

Contact: Serotonin Films + (0) 207 494 8293 Dominic Norris: dominic@serotoninfilms.com 4 Great Chapel Street, London, W1F 8FD, United Kingdom

 
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Posted by on January 24, 2012 in Drama, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Safety & Health

 

Big Brother is Watching-The Other Side of Samsung (2006)

24 Jan

40m; South Korea

Director: Labor News Production

Synopsis: Samsung’s surveillance of workers outside workplace

Contact: www.lnp89.org

 
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Posted by on January 24, 2012 in Documentary, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Working Class

 

The Big One (1997)

24 Jan

91m; U.S.

Director: Michael Moore

Synopsis: On his book tour, Michael Moore exposes more wrongdoing by greedy big businesses and callous politicians around America.

 
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Posted by on January 24, 2012 in Comedy, Documentary, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Politics, Safety & Health, Working Class

 

Big Rig (2007)

24 Jan

95m; U.S.

Director: Doug Pray 

Synopsis: An exhilarating look into the soul of the American truck driver.

 
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Posted by on January 24, 2012 in Documentary, Transportation

 

Bitter Rice (1949)

24 Jan

108m; Italy

Director: Giuseppe De Santis

Synopsis: Francesca and Walter are two-bit criminals in Northern Italy, and, in an effort to avoid the police, Francesca joins a group of women rice workers. She meets the voluptuous peasant rice worker, Silvana, and the soon-to-be-discharged soldier, Marco. Walter follows her to the rice fields, and the four characters become involved in a complex plot involving robbery, love, and murder

 
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Posted by on January 24, 2012 in Drama, Farm & Food, Working Class

 

Black Badge (2008)

24 Jan

38m; South Korea

Director: Jungmin Cho

Synopsis: Fired for trying to organise a union, contract workers at GM Daewoo go to extreme measures, holding a sit-in strike from the perch of a CCTV tower. With undertones of Michael Moore’s Roger and Me, the film exposes the brutal treatment irregular workers face in their struggle

 
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Posted by on January 24, 2012 in Documentary, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Organizing, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts, Working Class

 

Cradle Will Rock (2000)

24 Jan

132m; U.S.

Director: Tim Robbins

Cast: Hank Azaria, Rubén Blades and Joan Cusack, Bill Murray, Carey Elwes, Vanessa Redgrave

Synopsis (IMDB): In 1930s New York Orson Welles tries to stage a musical on a steel strike under the Federal Theater Program despite pressure from an establishment fearful of industrial unrest and red activity. Meanwhile Nelson Rockefeller gets the foyer of his company headquarters decorated and an Italian countess sells paintings for Mussolini.

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Posted by on January 24, 2012 in A: Highly Recommended Labor Films, Drama, Entertainment Industry, Working Class

 

The Company Men (2010)

24 Jan

104m; U.S.

Director: John Wells

Cast: Ben Affleck, Chris Cooper, Tommy Lee Jones, Maria Bello, Kevin Costner   

Synopsis: A year in the life of three men trying to survive a round of corporate downsizing at a major company – and how that affects them, their families, and their communities.

 

 

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Posted by on January 24, 2012 in A: Highly Recommended Labor Films, Drama, White Collar

 

Clerks (1994)

24 Jan

92M; U.S.   

Director: Kevin Smith    

Cast: Brian O’Halloran, Jeff Anderson and Marilyn Ghigliotti

Synopsis: A day in the lives of two convenience clerks named Dante and Randal as they annoy customers, discuss movies, and play hockey on the store roof.

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Posted by on January 24, 2012 in A: Highly Recommended Labor Films, Comedy, Service Workers

 

Blue Elephants (2010)

23 Jan

14m; Germany

Director: Moritz Siebert

Synopsis: This short documentary shows the dire labour conditions of migrant workers in the Malaysian electronics industry. Men and women from Nepal, Indonesia and other countries come as contract workers to work for Dell, HP, Intell and other well known brand companies. Migrant workers pay several thousands of dollars in commission to labour agents to get work permits. Workers often engage in heavy debts to obtain such permits which may grant them a stay in Malaysia for five year maximum. Time to pay off these debts is limited, while pay is low. Migrant workers face discrimination in Malaysian society as well as on the work floor, and have to accept bad housing conditions. The work load is heavy, and when worker fail to meet set targets, they risk immediate dismissal. When workers get pregnant or fall ill, they are sent back home at their own expenses. The documentary has been produced by Moritz Siebert in cooperation with World Economy, Ecology, development (WEED), for the European Procure IT Fair campaign.

Contact: http://www.vimeo.com/18617196

 
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Posted by on January 23, 2012 in Available Online, Documentary, Global Economy, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Outsourcing, Safety & Health, Streaming Online (Youtube, Vimeo), Working Class

 
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