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Waydowntown

29 Jan

2000
Comedy
Canada
Director: Gary Burns
Writers: Gary Burns, James Martin, Patrick McLaughlin
87 Minutes

This satirical lens into office work, corporate culture, and urban life involves a wager between co-workers as to who can last the longest without venturing outdoors. With their office building connected to both a well-stocked shopping center and their apartments, this appears a cinch. However, nearly a month into the contest at a retirement party, things go awry when one of the bettors, assigned to follow the CEO, discovers an unsavory secret about him.

 
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Posted by on January 29, 2015 in Big Business/Corporations, Cities-Urban, Class, Comedy, Consumerism, Occupation/Type of Work, Service Workers, Themes, White Collar

 

Northern Light (2013)

27 Jan

105 min  –  Documentary | Drama | Family  –  1 March 2013 (USA)
Directors:  Nick Bentgen, Lisa Kjerulff
Writers:  Nick Bentgen, Lisa Kjerulff

Set against the backdrop of a town’s annual snowmobile race, this cinematic, observational documentary explores the American working class experience.

NORTHERN LIGHT interweaves the lives of three families in the northwoods of Michigan. Set against the backdrop of a town’s annual snowmobile race, this cinematic, observational documentary explores the American working class experience. As racers and their families pin their hopes to a 500 mile-long test of endurance, small triumphs and giant sacrifices are made along the way. From a frozen corner of the country emerge three American families.

 
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Posted by on January 27, 2015 in Class, Drama, Unemployment-Wages, Women, Working Class

 

Small Homeland

24 Jan

2013
Drama
Italy
Director: Alessandro Rossetto
Writers: Caterina Serra, Alessandro Rossetto, Maurizio Braucci
111 Minutes

 
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Posted by on January 24, 2015 in Class, Drama, Immigrants/Immigration, Migrant workers, Themes, Working Class

 

I Can Quit Whenever I Want

24 Jan

2014
Comedy
Italy
Director: Sydney Sibilia
Writers: Valerio Attanasio, Andrea Garello, Sydney Sibilia
100 Minutes

A university researcher is fired because of the cuts to the university. To earn a living, he decides to produce drugs recruiting his former colleagues, who despite their skills are living at the margins of society.
–IMDb

 
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Posted by on January 24, 2015 in Arts/Culture, Class, Comedy, Consumerism, Education, Occupation/Type of Work, Self-Employed/Freelance, Themes, White Collar, Working Class

 

Tony Benn: Will and Testament

24 Jan

2014
Documentary
England
Director: Skip Kite
Writer: Skip Kite
90 Minutes

In this unique autobiographical feature, Tony Benn – one of the UK’s most influential and charismatic political figures – presents his personal reflections on life, work, love and loss through intimate, confessional interviews, wonderfully illustrated by his personal photographic and film archives. Criss-crossing the UK, he bears witness to major social and political upheavals and events that influenced him during his life and political career.
–Written by Tony Kite

 
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Posted by on January 24, 2015 in Arts/Culture, Biography, Class, Collective Bargaining, Documentary, Education, Labor History, Philosophy, Politics, Themes, Unemployment-Wages, Working Class

 

Fly to Transcend

24 Jan

Documentary
China
Director: Tu Qiao
90 Minutes

This is a story about Tian Yu, one of the survivors of the shocking “13 jump” suicides at Foxconn, the primary manufacturer of Apple products. The documentary reflects on the background and deeper causes of the tragedy from the perspectives of international relations, globalization, Chinese local government, and internal enterprise management, and with academic experts as well as media. After three years of silence Tian Yu finally spoke up to tell us the truth. Tian Yu today is an outstanding woman who is passionate about life, independent, and eager to help others. She has not only found love, but also hopes to be able to raise her kids like any normal person.

 

 
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Posted by on January 24, 2015 in Class, Communications, Documentary, Global Economy, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Labor History, Manufacturing, Migrant workers, Occupation/Type of Work, Technology, Women, Working Class

 

Bread, Concrete, and Roses

24 Jan

2013
Documentary
Turkey
Director: Yonetmen

The film is about the dangerous life of construction workers in a foreign land far from their homeland, and their social problems.
–Written by Steven Zeltzer

 
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Posted by on January 24, 2015 in Cities-Urban, Class, Construction Trades, Documentary, Immigrants/Immigration, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Labor History, Manufacturing, Migrant workers, Themes, Working Class

 

Istanbul Rising

24 Jan

2013
Documentary
18 Minutes
Vice News

The effort to protect the privatization of Gezi Park in Istanbul touched off one of the biggest protests and demonstrations in Turkey. This film shows how the people tried to protect the park from developers and property speculators who the AKP Prime Minister Erdogan represents.

 
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Posted by on January 24, 2015 in Available Online, Cities-Urban, Class, Documentary, Labor History, Occupation/Type of Work, Politics, Streaming Online (Youtube, Vimeo), Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts, Themes, Women, Working Class

 

The Southeast of Ankara

24 Jan

2013
Documentary
Director: Yonetmen
22 Minutes

The families of those immigrated for various reasons live in the four edge districts of Ankara which are located in the boundaries of Çankaya. The families who have lived for years in this region are exposed to an enforced immigration for urban transformation. The movie expresses the urban transformation and immigration subjects through the viewpoint of the children of those families.

 
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Posted by on January 24, 2015 in Children, Cities-Urban, Class, Discrimination: Racism, Sexism, etc, Documentary, Immigrants/Immigration, Labor History, Migrant workers, Themes, Working Class

 

Detachment

24 Jan

2011
Drama
Director: Tony Kaye
Writer: Carl Lund

A strong cast and good acting punctuate this drama about well-worn themes in contemporary cinema and educational discourse—failed public schools and the teachers allegedly indifferent to the pervasive, seemingly intractable social problems in them. Adrien Brody plays a substitute teacher who, in his one-month stint in a long-suffering public school, encounters teachers barely hanging on to their jobs and vocational motivation, and teenage students struggling with identity problems, abuse, and serious adult dilemmas such as prostitution. Hard-hitting indictment of not just the problems afflicting US public education but also some of the remedies advanced to solve them.

 
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Posted by on January 24, 2015 in Available Online, Children, Cities-Urban, Class, Drama, Education, Labor History, Netflix Watch Instantly, Occupation/Type of Work, Themes, White Collar, Working Class

 
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